You are correct, Naomi,

after some more testing on my problem, I switched it to pemstatus() and works correctly. Now to fix my other problems. :D

I was too quick on the solution stars. Sorry, I can not give them to you. :(

Thanks for everyone's help
Beth

>It's a wrong approach. See my original reply for correct answer.
>
>You can use TYPE("myObject.myObject") = 'O' and !insull(myObjec.myObject)
>
>If you don't have your property defined VARTYPE will give you an error. That's why PEMSTATUS() function was introduced.
>
>>Thanks, that works great. Don't know why my brain is having a hard time with vartype these days. :)
>>>

>>>IF VARTYPE("myobject.myproperty") = "O"
>>>

>>>
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>>>>I need to check a object that started out as "empty" object for a specific property. Is there a way to do this without getting an error?
>>>>
>>>>TIA,
>>>>Beth