In my app I have a situation where new tabs will be created at the user's request. The new tabs will always start out the same, so my plan was to make a hidden tab with all the initial controls on it's tab panel, then when the user wants a new tab, duplicate that "template" tab and turn the visibility to true. First, is this possible? Second, what is the best way to deal with talking to the controls in the newly created tab panel, since they will presumably have auto-generated names so as not to collide with the template they were created from? Thanks, Bill Hayden