Thanks Mike, much nicer and works great, any idea of why the alen() error with the objects collection?

>Hi Jorge,
>
>>I'm trying to use the objects collection, in the debugger it says that it's an array, the help file indicates the same but if I use alen(ThisForm.Objects), I get an error saying "Objects is not an array", wrong syntax?.
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>Try using "Controls" instead of "Objects", then you can use "Controlcount" too.
>
>FOR EACH loControl IN This.Controls
>*CODE
>ENDFOR