I have a database that runs some VB when it opens and then displays an initial data entry form. At some point over the last 2 months this procedure has stopped working, i.e. the form does not appear. In addition, if I try to manually open the form I get what looks like a really quick view of the form opening and then closing. Another strange thing is that I can't right-click on any of the database objects and go into design view. It gets even stranger. I restored a copy of this file from backup and get the same results. No big deal. However, I tried to open another copy of it that I have stored elsewhere, from over a year ago, and now I'm getting the same behaviour in that copy. What am I missing here? How could both copies suddenly stop working, especially when one has been sitting untouched for a year or more.