I had no idea this "simple" question would generate so many responses :-)

To answer the person why I first get the object reference:

I look through the collection first testing for a match on the object name - it may or may not exist in the collection. I *could* try instead to EVAL() against the collection using TRY/CATCH but that seems kinda clunky (though possibly faster, although the collection in this case is typically small). e.g.

TRY
   STORE EVAL("THIS.ioCollection." + tcObjectName ) TO loSavedObject
CATCH
   STORE .NULL. TO loSavedObject
ENDTRY

And this seemed to work just fine so let's go with that:

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>STORE m.tuValue TO EVAL("m.oSavedObject." + m.tcProperty)
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>Of course, it's easier to just pass the object in the first place.
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>Tamar

Thanks all!