Docmd.maximize causes form 'flicker'

I need to display a form as always maximized so I put docmd.maximize in the
open event. However, this appears to cause the form to display twice in quick
succession and it looks really bad. I tried making the form invisible before
the maximize then visible afterwards but this seemed to have no effect. Is
there any way to fix this so the screen displays smoothly.

Use Echo.False before changing the size of the form, and Echo.True
afterwards. Make sure that your error handling is good, you need to be
careful that Echo is set back to True if an error occurs. (Make sure you do
this *before* displaying any message boxes, or the user will never see
them). This won't eliminate flicker completely, but it will minimize it. The
flicker is also much more noticeable if the form is slow to load - if the
form loads quickly, most people will never notice the flicker. So anything
you can do to speed up the loading of the form will help.

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I need to display a form as always maximized so I put docmd.maximize in the
open event. However, this appears to cause the form to display twice in
quick
succession and it looks really bad. I tried making the form invisible
before
the maximize then visible afterwards but this seemed to have no effect. Is
there any way to fix this so the screen displays smoothly.