>>I an renaming many field names in some of my table, and now I have to update the various pieces of my app to work with the new schemas. Some places that will need to be fixed are the .ControlSource property on many objects, code in methods of forms and classes, and fields in reports.
Have you tried gofish, available in downloads here? It has options for search and replace in scx, frx, dbc, vcx etc etc...
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1