fbook, thanks for your post, worked perfectly!  I going to  nominate you for a distinguished service award!

I will try it and get back to this form.  Thanks for the reply

I have another mystery on my hands. I have a button that makes a hidden subform visible. Once clicked for viable the user can fill it out the boxes in the subform. Then when done the form is saved and when re-opened by the user to make correction or to print, this subform reverts to hidden, but the ...