>I thought the ZORDER was the order of the instantiation of objects and that you could adjust ZORDER by doing a "send to back" or "send to front" whichever was appropriate for a given group of objects. Can you enlighten me on ZORDER?
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>Thanks

ZOrder has nothing to do with instantiation order, just because it can be applied when all instantiation is over. Actually, it's used to bring up/down overlapped controls, e.g. if you want some commandbutton pop up behind the grid:
thisform.command1.zorder(0)
and to birng it down:
thisform.command1.zorder(1)