Hello Nadya
You can expand on Jim's idea by drilling down through each containers levels recursivly finding all references with that name no matter where they are.
Bob
>Hi everybody,
>
>If I know the object's name (the object is on the form, like grid), but don't know its hierarchy, is there a way to receive an object reference?
>
>Thanks a lot in advance.
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