Try scatter to an object then pass that object reference to
form 2.

* Form 1
USE Customer
SCATTER NAME oScatter
DO FORM frm2 WITH oScatter

* Form 2
INIT

LPARAMETER;
loScatter

USE Cust2
APPEND BLANK
GATHER FROM NAME oScatter

-myron kirby-
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>Hi All
>
>I have a system that work O.K. under VFP3 but Not working under VFP5.
>
>One Form1 do Scatter memvar Blank then it calls Form2 where it does Scatter memvar memo.
>
>It seems that the scatter memvar creating PRIVATE variables because the scatter in form2 are NOT updating the variables in Form1.
>
>Is there a way around this, where the first scatter will create Global variables without me dclaring the variables Global before the scatter in Form1 . or am I doing something wrong.
>
>Thanks
>Mo