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What Joe recommends will do the trick fine. Declaring a Public variable makes a "property" -- the Property Let/Gets are roughly similar to VFP's "_Access" and "_Assign".
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(Sorry, I meant "Tim")
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. - Bertrand Russell
