>If you would like to address a form and you do not
>know what the name of the form is, you say...
>
>"_screen.ActiveForm.whatever"
>
>How do you do the same thing for a data field?

There is active (current) work area (i.e. table), but I have never heard about 'active field'. But a field from current work area can always be referenced by name only (w/out table name).