I have always battled this problem, so I'm going to the experts for the final say so on how to fix this. I have buttons that I want to set enabled to FALSE when a button is pressed and have hidden text become visible that says somthing like "Searching..." to let the user know that something is happening. I was told to use DOEVENTS after the code in the CLICK event that I reset the states of the buttons and the visible text, but the rest of the code in the CLICK event completes before the visual changes are made. How can I force the visual changes to happen before the rest of the code is executed?

Thanks!
Colombo.