>GOT IT - this I think is strange (maybe you could tell me) - the option button is on the first page a page frame - the user makes his/her choice and is moved onto the next page where the final choices are made - when the page moves over lcDestination is reset to .f. ?
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>I have changed it so that pDestination is a property on the form and it works...

You lcDestination was going out of scope. Making it a form property should help, though your where condition may use full notation, as you show in your code example, and it should work just fine.