Hey Bonnie,

Hmm, somehow I overlooked this or misinterpreted it. Silly me. I'll take a look at it, thanks.

>Hi Bill,
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>The Controls collection has a Find method that looks like it might do the trick, but I haven't actually tried it. I think it would probably be used like this:
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>this.Controls.Find("MyControl", true);
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>The second parameter is for SearchAllChildren.
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>~~Bonnie
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>>If a control is nested within other controls on a Windows form and the control Name is known, is it possible to get a reference to the control without doing a recursive search of the control array? Recursively searching the control array is the only method I have been able to find for this. Although this works, I would prefer a more direct approach if one exists.
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>>Thanks,
>>Bill