>Thanks for a quick reply. I am attempting the DE access well after the init. I am attempting to get an object reference on THISFORM.dataenvironment in response to a button click on the form.

Then, as Ed said, check its name. You can do that in the debugger - just put a breakpoint or assert in the button.click, and put "thisform" in the watch window. Then drill down and see what's the actual name of the DE object.