The refresh tells the form to repaint itself and it's controls, it does not tell the form to clear itself of information.

Try this:

CLEAR
DIR 
WAIT WINDOW
CLEAR WINDOW
ThisForm.Refresh()

Alan

>What I had HOPED to see was for the form to go back to the original screen (form) when I said Do Form xxx.
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>The user could select a command button, some processing / report or something happens, then when they press a key for the Wait Window, the form would go back and look exactly as it did when I said Do form xxx.
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>I can NOT get the form to go back to that original condition.
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>Try it. Create a simple form with one command button. On click for that button put:
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>CLEAR
>WAIT WINDOW "Press any key to clear results"
>ThisForm.refresh
>
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>The form does not come back.
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>I very much appreciate your response to my question and I hate to keep asking, but I can not get this to work!!
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>Thanks
>Joel