>>>Can you return a value from a form? What does the syntax look like from the calling form, if you can?
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>>>TIA
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>>No you can't do that directly. There are a couples of workaround to that.
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>>1. You assign return value to a public variable of the parent form.
>>2. You call a function in the child form and this child shows the form modally. Then the function can return a value.
>>3. You put the value in a public variable in the child form, just hide the child form, retreive the public variable from the parent form and the unload the child.
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>I ended up making the calling form a public variable. I needed to store the return value in a text box of the calling form. The called form is basically a selec printer modal dialog. When I'm done if that hit Ok and they've selected a printer from the list I store it directly to the calling form's text box.

After thinking about it I'm going to go with #3 on your list. The child form shouldn't have to know about the parent form.