Hi, Bill. You're right (as far as I'm concerned, anyway). I haven't had SET variables reset to default AFTER the .load event.... Scoped to the current data session IS at the form (or formset) level...

>Hi Jim,
>
>I think you misunderstood my question. I understand "scopes to the current data session". The question was
>where to put the code to explicitly set them. I always thought it was in the Form.Load event. Now I find out
>that at least one (set confirm) is reset to the default in the DE. I'm getting ready to test the
>rest to see if they all are reset to the default. I never noticed that "set confirm" got reset. I assume
>that's because my default and what I explicitly set them to were always the same.