Thanks - it just may end up that way. It'd be cool if I could get it to work, but I've spent over an hour on it already, and the functionality works perfectly well with Access open, so I may have to take your advice.
Thanks. I'll start a new thread with your suggestions if you think that's better, but I realized the highlights were missing on the screenshot so I took another. this was on the net and is supposed to hide the Access window if you call it from form_load on the initial form. I haven't used...