I would rather itterate through screen's form collection to check if form already exists.

FOR EACH loForm IN _SCREEN.Forms
  IF loForm.Name = < >    
* or 
  IF loForm.Caption = < >
...
ENDFOR

>Sergey,
>
>Thanks so much for that additional info. That cleared it up for me and I now I have a RightClick() method on my main screen that launches my shortcut menu called mnushort.mpr. However, there is one little question on that. (hope I can ask this within this thread.)
>
>One of the choices on that shortcut menu is to run my main "Navigator" form. I launch it the same way on both the shortcut menu and my main menu, "DO FORM navigator." In the Load event of this form I have the following code to prevent two instances of the form from being created:
>
>

>IF TYPE("Navigator") = "O" and !ISNULL(Navigator)
>   Navigator.Show()
>   RETURN .F.
>ENDIF
>

>
>The form is recognized as an "Object" when launched from the Main menu but not from my Shortcut menu. Why would that be?