>Found the problem. The KEYBOARD "{CTRL+A}" works, but the ASELOBJ() was not. Two parameters are required to return the form reference: ASELOBJ(array,1) works as expected.
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>Thanks
>- Brian

But remember the 1 only returns the container. I made the assumption and ending up changing the program to make sure I had the form reference by drilling down through the containers parents until I had a form reference.

MODIFY FORM NOWAIT
=ASELOBJ( laForm, 1)

These two should do what you want.