At least I have the excuse of being on Pacific time!

Yes, not being able to use properties is the 'Myform.Myproperty' format is a real drawback. Sometimes I end up with a couple of 'layers' of variables and macros to make a compiled program work where 1 line of code in the command box works perfectly.

Barbara
>Hi Barb,
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>Where were we when thay passed out the 9-5 jobs?
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>That's what I ended up doing. I was hoping someone had figured out a way around this syntax problem. There should be no reason an array property could not be passed like an array variable. You can't do this either: dada $ .myProperty, but you can do dada $(.myProperty).
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>Looks like MS has not quite figured out what to do with all those .s.
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>regards,