>>>That was painless....(FOR ME!) thanks for the help!
>>>
>>>dg
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>>Great! The following general principles may also help you in other programming tasks:
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>>1. Variables declared in one method will not be available in another method of the same form. Form-level properties solve this problem. (Public variables are an abomination unto the Lord. - Well, they may be used on rare occasions, but this is not one of them.)
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>>2. These properties may also be objects.
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>>Note that sometimes you will get a dangling object reference. If you have trouble closing a form, it may be that somewhere else you still have a reference to your form.
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>What variable, value or condition do I check to check the existence of "ThisForm.OtherForm"? I want to make sure the new form is closed before it is called again, because the form creates a cursor to populate the data, and the initial cursor would be destroyed thus causing a problem when returning to the first open instance. Is there a conditional statement to test before issuing ThisForm.OtherForm.Release() ?
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>This could also be applied when closing the first form as well (if I follow your discussion with Naomi).
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>Thanks,
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>dg

To check for existence:

if type('thisform.OtherForm.Name') = 'C'
* Form is alive
endif