You can:
-Define rs as public in a standard module
-Pass rs as an argument to CheckBOF


>Hi - I have opened a recordset in the the load of my form...
>Option Explicit
>Public rs As New adodb.Recordset
>I can do stuff with move next buttons etc on the form - it works very well..
>
>I wrote a couple of modules - modCheckEOF and modCheckBOF - you can guess what they do? Here's modCheckBOF
>
>Option Explicit
>
>Public Function CheckBOF() As Boolean
> rs.MovePrevious
> If rs.BOF Then
> CheckBOF = True
> rs.MoveNext
> Else
> CheckBOF = False
> rs.MoveNext
> End If
>End Function
>
>OK so far... but in the original form I have this code...
>
>If CheckBOF Then
>'disable the previous button on the toolbar
>Toolbar1.Buttons.Item(3).Enabled = False
>End If
>
>This crashes with a "variable not defined" because I guess that it's going to modCheckBOF and it can't find rs...
>
>What do I need to do to get this working? Is it unreasonable to write little pockets of code that I call from forms? Any general advice about scoping objects would be greatly appreciated!!!
>
>Thanks!