>Thanks Trey and Mike. I'm not used to using EVAL(). Guess it's time I learned! ;-)

Great for object references too:

loObject = eval('thisform.command' + lnI)
loObject.Caption = 'Command1'

Instead of

lcObject = 'command' + lnI
thisform.&lcObject..Caption = 'Command1'

The first one's faster, I think, and just looks cleaner, like you probably noticed with your problem.