>>I'd use:
>>
>>

for each loButton in thisform.controls
>>    if upper(loButton.BaseClass) = 'COMMANDBUTTON'
>>        loButton.Whatever...
>>    endif
>>endfor

In this case loButton refers to the actual control, so if you need its name you can do loButton.Name.
>
>I mean can you give me an example. You said "for each loButton " how would I word this or even know what loButton is? I know what my controls are.....

loButton is actually arbitrary here.

You could say for each loControl or for each pirhana