>I have created a form to be a status box... I need to tell if that form, which was opened with....
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>do form myform name myform
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>is currently open or not prior to writing updates to it. Wexist() doesn't cut it. I found that out the hard way when I accidentally opened over 300 instances of the form before my computer said - 'YEAH RIGHT!!!'

Is the form variable out of scope?

I think you want the LINKED clause, too.