PMFJI (But I've had this discussion Twice this week, so :-)

>>It is never necessary to declare a variable public in the main start up prg of an app. A private is globally visible to the entire application.
>... I don't understand what you want to say here. Sorry.

A PRIVATE declared in the very first routine is available to every other Routine/Method/Menu command/Report in the app. That makes it global, but is not declared PUBLIC, so your other statment:

>>So when is a var required to be public?
>Only when its real scope is over the entire application.

Is not true either if the varaible was declared public in the main program.