I often use sub Forms to do activities that I do not want to carry out on some Parent Form (if you will). Now for me a subform is just another form that I call a sub form because it is called from a different form that receives the information from the sub form. I understand that there are real sub forms in VB, but I have never used them, since what I am currently doing works just fine.

So I sometimes call this sub form from the parent form and do whatever activity goes with the sub form. At that point I close the sub form and return to the parent form (the parent form may have been hidden or not). Usually, there is some data that some control in the parent form has received from the sub form. What generally occurs when I do this is that the data does not show in the parent form, unless I close the parent form and open it again.

What I am after is a reliable means of refreshing the parent form after closing the sub form.

I can tell that this might not be easily understood, and will attempt a better explanation if required.