>>I think your point here and a benchmark test I just ran has convinced me to finally give up my superstition about PEMSTATUS.
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>Cool test, I still would have thought VarType() would have been faster.
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>>I got burned by its infamous dangling object reference bug :-(.
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>Me too, whats the status of that, BTW, has that been fixed for sometime? Cause I still have the workarounds in place.

According to KB Q221740 "FIX: Form Does Not Close After Using PEMSTATUS()" it was fixed in SP3.