>>Yes - Public and default variables (AKA Private) would be visible, as opposed to Local vars.
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>>hth
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>You did test it with the form, correct? In various form's methods?

Keep in mind that PRIVATE does ***NOT*** 'create' any variable.
So if you want such "variables" available with some value in later methods/functions/etc you have to both declare them PRIVATE and assign values to each right away.