>Does anyone know of a way to create a control array. Something that I can do
> "object.mycontrol(1).name"
>or
> "object.mycontrol("id").Name"
>
>I know that a control array can do the first one but I don't thing that it could do the last one. Is there a way to code this so that the "mycontrol" could be passed an parameter and still be used as an object.

You do have a ControlCount property on the form, and a Controls collection that you can loop through:

for i = 1 to ThisForm.ControlCount
    oControl = ThisForm.Controls(i)
    ... do something here with oControl
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