>Trey, Thank you very much. I notice that in the class info.../members tab that the properties have a visibility of Public. Is that the same thing as my going into the Load event and declaring a Public variable? Bob A

Public properties and methods can be accessed from anywhere within an application.

[As long as the object is in scope.]

Protected properties and methods cannot be accessed by object instances, but can be accessed by subclasses.

Hidden properties and methods cannot be accessed by either object instances or subclasses.