> I try to declare major variables for any programmers unlucky enough to have > to work with my code in the future, but I'm grateful I can throw in a > > FOR n = 1 to 25 > > without worrying where n came from and was it a character variable before. Exactly my tune. I declare them by placing a comment in the preceding line - the semantics is far more important than syntax in this case. And if it's a variable which may have several types - well, that's in generalized utility routines, and is also commented. Of course, no one trusts a variable with a name like i, j, k, ..., m, n, JohnSmith to have scope more than couple of lines or one block - those are commonly known single-use variables, whose values are not necessarily preserved across function calls. > Now MY pet peeve is the need for a form-wide variable. Sometimes it just > isn't convenient to use a form property.... > > Barbara ....which reminds me of an unfinished thread on passing variable by ref to a CreateObjectED form's init, how's it scoped? Lost in space when init exits?