Below I have tried to describe my problem and two futile attempts to fix it:


Form_1: User enters criteria. User clicks on rpt button.

Form_2: Displays: Processing Please Wait

RptPreview: Displays report results

Problem: When report is closed, Form_2 is still open.
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Attempt 1:
DoCmd.Close
DoCmd.OpenReport "rptname", acViewPreview...

Pb w/attempt 1 This closes the form all right but there is a 20 second time gap before the report preview finishes processing and displays.

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Attempt2:
DoCmd.OpenReport, "rptname", acViewPreview...
DoCmd.Close


Pb w/attempt2 The rpt preview closes instead of the form_2.
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Any suggestions are greatly appreciated. Thanks.

There may be a better way to do this but you could put this in your close event of your report:

DoCmd.Close acForm, "Form_2"

This will close Form_2 when the report is closed.

Try this before trying to close the report:
DoCmd.SelectObject acReport, "rptName"

OOps!
Select your form instead of your report!
DoCmd.SelectObject acForm, "frmName"

Thanks Talismanic your solution worked perfectly. Kaspi I was not able to get your suggestion to work, but thanks anyway.