Thanks Eric, here are some answers. Hopefully a start.

>Do you have an application object? Do you have user security and user profiles?

I have yet to use an App object, but am getting into it slowly. I use a MAIN.prg to establish the environment. There is also a LOGIN form with security profiles for each user.

>As far as closing open forms, you should design your own custom form class that handles the datasession in the event of a shutdown. This to, depends on what is in the DE of the form, how you are buffering, view, table, cursor, ?? etc.

Many forms use a combination of tables, views and cursors.

A long time ago, I heard of a method for keeping track of each form as it was opened and closed. Would something like this be necessary or helpful to deal with what I'm looking for?

Thanks again,