Nancy, on my forms, it's the form CAPTION which appears in the list of open Windows, so the form NAME can be frm.... as was suggested.

Barbara

>Since the form name appears in the list of open windows, I use something that resembles what the user thinks they're doing--which rarely matches the name of a single table...So I guess I've never run into the problem. Plus, I guess I don't "know" about forms from elsewhere in the app, so I rarely have to call them specifically. Just lucky, here :-)
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>>>I couldn't reference the form by its name, any suggestions ?
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>>I personally name my forms with a frm prefix. I use this naming convention with all of my objects. This avoids any type of conflict with
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