>How does one terminate a macro when a period and membername follow. I tried class&mac..membername syntax, but that didn't work. I know it can be done, I just don't remember the trick. TIA.

I don't know whether you can make that approach work, but you can usually macro-expand a larger part of the command, or even an entire command.

For example, in your example I assume "mac" might contain something like "ThisForm". Make a second macro, mac2 = "ThisForm.MemberName", and use it in the macro expansion.

Note that you can also assign objects in an object hierarchy to a variable; this might be more efficient than macro expansion.

obj = ThisForm.TextBox1
obj.Visible = .T.

If you need to process several objects with similar names, like Label1, Label2, etc., in a loop, you might proceed as follows:

i = 1
lcTextBox = "ThisForm.Label" + trans(i)
obj = eval(lcTextBox)
obj.Caption = "Hello, there."