Thanks for that. That'll do the job. I was hoping that there would be an easy way to create a form property, without resorting to public variables, but I'll cope with this.

Thanks,

Pete
>=== Correction Form1 ===
>Private Sub Command1_Click()
>Form2.sData = "test"
>Form2.Show
>End Sub
>=== Form2 ===
>Public sData As String ' the easiest way to create a property :-)
>Private Sub Form_Activate()
>MsgBox sData
>End Sub