I managed to get it done, I pasted the code underneath incase someone else has a similar problem. John Dim form As System.Windows.Forms.Form For Each form In Me.MdiChildren form.Close() Next form

Hi, I have now fixed this problem, my MDACs were not up to date, so once I updated these everything worked fine. Thanks again. John.

Hi, thanks foryour advice, I havesince managed to get the dataset working. Many thanks John

Hi, thanks for this, works a treat, I can't blieve I forgot to use the array. Thanks again John.

Hi Fredrik, thanks for your help, I've managed to get all rows from the listview using a for loop and adding them to a string. thanks again for your help john