>Otherwise i must use cyanide to stop my baby from crying.

I think what Jim trying to say is that you should have a similar program like this:

Procedure FormCollect
Lparam cformname
For i = 1 To _Screen.FormCount
   * check if the name of the form is equal to your reference form name 
   If Upper(_Screen.forms(i).name) = Upper(cformname)

      * do whatever you like to do in the form here
      _Screen.forms(i).Activate 
      Exit
   Endif
Endfor

Call the form anywhere in your application without declaring it public.

Do FormCollect With 'MyForm'

Another way is that Invoke the form specifying the name in the do form command:

Do Form Myform Name MyformName

so that you can call the form by its name anywhere in the application:

MyFormName.Activate
MyformName.Refresh

etc.
etc.

jb