thank you so much to Big John Booty super Moderator, for your timely and exelllent answer to my rather dumb question, and for supplying an actual block of code. So helpful! However, I wasn't clear about my prob. I have a form with a print command btn. If clicked, the form closes, the report opens, and a msg box comes up asking if user is reallly ready to print as opposed to previewing the report. user will click no if he wants to preview, but the msg box has to be closed first in order to scroll. If he sees the report is OK and now wnats to print, it would have to be done "manually" by right clicking the report, which shuold realy be disabled. Is there any way to have"press any key to continue," or maybe to only minimize the form, after it's opened in full screen. If he sees an error on report, he'll go back to form to fix, then click print btn again to print. That part is fine. if he needs to preveiw report, or maybe go back to form to fix data, is there a way to maximize the form? I should add that the user is fine as it now stands, I'm just a little compulsive.
I apologize for not getting back sooner, as I was on another project.
Thank you again, and to this whole forum of Access pros for sharing your expertise with us newbies. I read old threads, and learn something new all the time.