>That clears things up a lot. I've been using my form class as a template, but usually not called from code. I'll have to make some changes.

Okay, post back as your ideas evolve. Would be interested to hear what design path you take.

BTW, my thanks go to Arnon Gal-Oz for making the DE Extract utility (I think it's available here or on www.vfug.org). I used to learn about programmatic classes and class forms. I'm really sorry he's not doing Fox stuff anymore.