>As mentioned before, I am a novice Foxpro programmer. My understanding of FoxPro programming is VERY limited, But I appreciate the advice.
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>How would you open a form??

When you open a form, you should provide reliable link to make references to form objects later on outside this form. It will prove as helpfup feature when your interface will become more sophisticated. So you start a form
either
DO FORM myform NAME oApp.myform LINKED && if you design a form
or
oApp.myform=createobject("clMyform") && if you design a class
Both ways, oApp.myform is a way to form and all its objects. Certainly, real app assumes creating oApp.collection to handle form references in generic way.