Greg,

>The option of declaring an instance of the object and then setting the variable to Null does not work.

It was a wild shot in the dark. *g*

>This is the same as simply declaring the variable as Null (the variable does not have any real typing associated with it).

Well not exactly...

loNothing = .null.
? type( "loNothing" ) && right now it's a null logical
loNothing = createobject( "form" )
loNothing = .null.
? type( "loNothing" ) && and now it's a null object
loNothing = 0
loNothing = .null.
? type( "loNothing" ) && and now it's a null number

>In short, the "Nothing" in VB is a reference to a null object variable; VFP Null is simply null variable (not of any type). The ActiveX does have another option for declaring what I wanted to do via code -- the other option is via XML and loading the definition and I am now pursuring this method.

Glad you've got another route to go.