>I'm glad you are so appreciative of the help I'm trying to give you.
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>Can I ask you a very simple question? Why are you using _SCREEN? You can set the _SCREEN to be off in nada land, like top=10000 left=10000,and thereafter use any VFP form as your top level form, your own desktop as it were.
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>I believe all you need to do this is set ShowWindow to 2- As top level form and the Desktop property to False. And therein you'll set AutoCenter to .T. in the init.

Thank you very much for your help Steve. I'm doing it this way because a while ago it was suggested to me by Jim Booth that I set _screen.visible to F, modify the form as I liked, then make it visible. What I am doing is setting autocenter to T, then adjusting the size of the screen. Apparently this is the wrong order. I need to set the size, then set autocenter. Your method may be easier, however. Don't get me wrong, I do appreciate your help. It's just that I felt that I was being spoken to like a child when we obviously miscommunicated. Since there is no tonal inflection in correspondence, this can happen. If I misinterpreted your intent, I apologize.

Ed