>>Following on Larry's coattails,
>>
>>>>IF TYPE("ThisForm.ActiveControl.Name") = "C" will return .T. if ActiveControl is a valid object with a Name property. Do not use Vartype() for this as it is not robust enough for the checking and it will throw an error.
>>
>>The same can be done with variables.>>
>>
>>
>>While
>>TYPE("ThisForm.ActiveControl.Name") = "C"
>>
>>is functionally similar to
>>TYPE("ThisForm.ActiveControl") = "O"
>>
>>testing agains the .Name property of an object is more robust than testing against the object itself. It sure looks weird though.
>>
>>Regards,
>>Thom C.
>
>One exclusion though - the object created with SCATTER NAME command does not have .Name property.

Not unless you've got a field called "Name" in the table it was created from. < g >