You have one too many commas.

DoCmd.close  acForm , me.Name , acSaveYes

Sorry, Kevin,

I only had the extra , in my forum text.  This is a copy and paste version.  [I don't know why I use the passvalue technique??]

  Dim passvalue As String
    Dim strsearch As String
    
    passvalue = Me!MDKaID
    'DoCmd.Minimize
    DoCmd.Close acForm, Me.name, acSaveYes
    DoCmd.OpenForm "MDKA_Form", , , "MDKaID=" & passvalue

oh, maybe I should have said (recognized) that I am exciting the above code on a subform,,, would that matter?

Open the 2nd form before closing the calling (1st) form.

If you meant reverse the two DoCmd's

DoCmd.Open
and then
DoCmd.Close

I tried that and still did not close the 1st form

the Mainform that is open that I want to close is MasterTab which has a subform that I am clicking on the MDKaID , and I want the mainform and its subforms to close before opening the MKDA_Form.  

if I substitute the the form name for me.Name it closes fine.

If the code is being executed from a SubForm use Parent.Name instead of Me.Name

Does it work if you put the actual name of the form in there?

Yes

Thanks Kevin,  

the Parent.Name is the ticket when closing from a subForm.  

It worked !!