Thank you so much JZ! That took care of the problem. I can give the user a message then send the open form to the front so they can close it cleanly. I'll look into the shutdown mode option on the project also. Thanks for all the help, Judy

My pleasure. I see you have run into the modern developers curse, if you hold your tongue just right and face into the wind, it works. Now you can understand why I hate interacting with the textbox events. Well done. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH