That's what I do, too. But I have to admit I don't know why PUBLIC doesn't work. I know PRIVATE memvars will fall out of scope in VFP but thought PUBLICs remained the same, i.e. they stay around until released or the session ends.

>I usually put a similar property in the second form and populate it from the property in the first form after instantiating the second form.
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>>Hi Gang
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>>I have a variable (SCN) that is declared as a Public variable in the first form.
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>>Public Class Signon    'Form declaration
>>  Public SCN as String
>>  {Bunches of code here}
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>>  Private Sub cmdStart()
>>    {more code here}
>>    dim DispQuestion as new frmDispQuestion  'Create/call 2nd form here
>>    DispQuestion.Show()
>>  end sub
>>end class
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>>First form calls second form which also needs to use SCN, but it doesn't recognize SCN as being declared in 2nd form. What do I need to do differently for the 2nd form to 'see' the SCN variable?
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>>Thanks
>>Dorris