>Nope. Put it in the load of the form, but better, create a form property and use it instead.
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Maybe I'm misunderstanding.

Are you saying that a variable created in the Load is in scope for the rest of the form?? I didn't think that was the case -- iow....creating the form property is the only way to create a "variable" scoped to the form.

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>>Been out of work or working so much in old FPW that I have forgotten this. I set a variable in the INIT of a form and it is then out of scope when the INIT is exited. I thought if I set it in the INIT it would remain in scope for all of the form's members. Thanks!