>Mike, thanks for your assistance here and it gives me pointers.
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>Just one thing thats puzzling me:-
>If I Make Properties Local to a screen, they are treated separately and dont interfere with a second instance of the same screen at the same time ..right ?
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>If I make all the Memory variables lcoal,by looping around every field in a particular file, will these memory variables not then be local to the screen and not interfere with a second instance. If this is the case, I should not need to set up a Screen object to hold the memory variables ?

There's no place in a form to declare variables local/private for the form. The only way to do that is to writhe wrapper program for each form and declare variables private there. I think it's even more hassle than changing just once controlsource of the controls on the form.

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