You can make an OCX containing all the pieces you need and then drop your OCX onto a new form.

Regards,
Simon Jones
MillStream Designs Ltd
Independent IT Consultants

  Is it possible to design a form with a tool bar and some standard
  controls ...etc and then use it at design time to as an ancestor to
  create new forms just like you can with other OO languages?

No.

The best you can do is copy the form, which obviously is not the same thing.

Kathleen