Just to update you with what's going on, I tried your suggestion but it didn't work. After much though, I remember changing something in the contract form's parent form class so I when back and there it was! One stupid line of code in the parent form's Activate event.

Anyway, I've learn to be very careful when I make any changes to base or parent class in the future. OOPs is great but if you screw up, debugging it sometimes is harder.

Thanks again.
John.

>John,
>
>A modal form run from a form with a DataSession set to Private "inherits" the calling forms data session. Therefore, the tactic to use is:
>
>Change the DataSession to Public in the modal subform.
>Save the current contract record number.
>Change the contract record number to the desired record.
>DO FORM contrcov.
>Print what you want to print.
>Upon return, reset the record number.