The error message occurs and tells me that control element '0' doesn't exist. The problem is, the control elements are all *design time* creations, so they should be there. I thought it was because I was calling a user defined function on the form before the form was loaded, so I threw in a DoEvents to allow the form some time to catch up loading. That wasn't it. I tried using the form.Refresh method on the form, and I'm not sure if that worked or not. Someone else tells me they get the message, but I no longer do ( the project is shared). Does anyone have any good explanation of what's going on here????

Chuck