This thread has been reported a couple of times. It's been asked to be moved to the VB6 forum. Even though the original post didn't have any code (which is probably why people don't think it belongs in the CodeBank) it's a valuable tip, just as good as any code snippet. Bonnie also posted some code which might very well belong here so I've decided to leave this thread here in the CodeBank instead of moving it to VB6 where it soon will just disappear among the huge amount of new threads in that forum.