Thanks Tom. You're a saint!!! :)

Adding vbModeless after frmDatabase.Show makes it work
perfect - just like I wanted.

Thanks so much, Rick

-----Original Message-----
by default, the form is shown modal - in xl2000, they
added the option to
show it modeless

Sub ShowTheForm()
frmDatabase.Show vbModeless
End Sub

Regards,
Tom Ogilvy


"Rick" wrote in message
...
How can I show the form, pick some items on a dropdown
box
on the form to run some code, and then change my focus
back to the worksheet - and leave the form showing -
ready
for another time to use? Right now, I bring up the
form,
pick the items from the form etc., but I have to exit
(unload) the form before doing it again. It would be
nice
to have the form on the top-left corner of the
spreadsheet
continuously, to use when I need it. I think there is
some code to do this - to allow this to happen this way,
but I can't remember what it is.

OK, this is what I've done so far (writing it in simple
terms).

Sub ShowTheForm()
frmDatabase.Show
End Sub

Private Sub cboData_Change()'Dropdown box on the form
Dim S1 As Worksheet
Dim i As Integer, j As Integer
Set S1 = Sheets("Data")
For i = 0 To 3
If Me.cboData.ListIndex = i Then
If Application.ActiveCell.Row = 12 Then
For j = 0 To 3
'(Data is taken from S1 and placed on activecell)
Next j
Exit For
End If
End If
Next i

Application.ActiveCell.Select 'I tried using this....

'Unload Me (this is an option)
End Sub

Thanks, Rick


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