>>can I say do form myform with @parm1, @parm2 in vfp7
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>DO statement passes parameters by reference by default. That's why you get the error. Hovever parameters are only available in the Init of the form.

OK, Sergey, thank you. I saw that removing the @ removed the error, but I thought I had to have them, so I thought it must be something else in the way the call was made that I was overlooking.

Thanks again.