>Jayesh
>Thanks again for responding. I tried your recommendations and they didn't do the trick. I still get the flicker. I have included the code because I thought you might be curious, but please, feel no need to respond. Both I and my users can live with the flicker. This procedure is called from the scolled method of the active form (hard to read without indention

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