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I am not sure I get your point :confused: I am the developer. I want to tell/show the user that calculation has finished (because he/she does not see the small status bar). I can do this in a few ways, one is placing all formula's etc. in vba en add some code after it that shows the user its...

yes, also a nice workaround :p but if I add a new object on the form, then this is not valid any more.. @DCrake Like I said, I can place everything in a subroutine. I am just very curious why the answer to my question is so difficult, it just looks like there is no event/trigger that tells you...

Sure I can do that. My objection is that there are a lot of obejcts on the form, if I do this in code, then I do not have a good overview what formula is ment for what field. But thanks again, in my search for the ultimate answer I overlooked this obvious one ;) But anyway, my question is...

and in addition if the border style is set to sizable

Thanks for your quick answer Yes I have tried the afterupdate event. Point is that the form does not contain a recordset. It just contains labels and textfields, and some of the fields have a formula as "control source" so until now no luck :(

What about using the onclick event then use "docmd.openform formname,,,where statement" where the where clause opens the form for the specific record you are clicking on. For example use the primary key value of the record as a reference. or if you want to open/goto the form and show all...

Hi people, One of the forms I have is calculating some fields with dlookup and dcount formula's. This is taking a while, what means that first the form is shown, but the values stay empty until the calculations are finished. You can see that the form is still calculating because the status bar...