Try again-msgbox opens too quickly

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Bonnie

I apologize for reposting but while I did receive a reply
to my prior post, it was only a restatement of my inquiry
with no suggestion or advice. I'll try again:

Hi there! Using A02 on XP. I have a message boxs that, if
required, is to pop up when the form opens. But my
problem is that it actually appears BEFORE the form opens
and you can't see the form until you click Okay to the
message box. I want the form to open and THEN the message
box to appear. I have tried OnOpen up through OnCurrent
and the msg won't wait for the form to be open underneath.
It is a reminder button that checks to see if a certain
fields date is more than 30 days old and remind you to
update specific data. If they could read the message as
well as see the form, they could better identify what it
is they are to do. If they click okay and then forget the
wordage, Uh-Oh. OnCurrent works for subsequent records but
not the first one. I can't use any edit type procedures as
they may only be looking at the form.

Any help or advice about how to get the msgbox to 'fire'
AFTER the form opens would be very much appreciated.
Thanks in advance for your time!
 
No, I tried it but the messagebox pops in before anything
opens. But thanks for taking a shot at it. I'll need to
rethink what I'm doing or they'll need to remember what
they read.

Thanks again!
 
Bonnie said:
No, I tried it but the messagebox pops in before anything
opens. But thanks for taking a shot at it. I'll need to
rethink what I'm doing or they'll need to remember what
they read.

Thanks again!
Click to expand...

Try this, in the Open or Load event:

Me.Visible = True
DoEvents
MsgBox "Your message here ..."

It seems to work for me.
 
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