>>What I am saying is that if the object reference is stored to cControl and not the literal "txtwhatever" then Thisform.cControl.value returns the value of the control "txtwhatever".
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>>My post did not come out as I typed it. I take it putting class between delimiters here is a no no.
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>I don't use quotes between my value in the cControl property and I get an unknown reference. The cControl property is a text property. It holds text. So, I can't see how that can be interpreted as is to be a control reference. Maybe I am missing something. :(

I think he means you can set its value to eval(SomeObject.SomeProperty). Now you have an object ref in the property. But then you would have an oControl property instead of a cControl property.