Many ways to skin the cat!

>>It escapes me the syntax for checking for the existence of a control like a commandbutton. If...............?
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>>-TB
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>you already have other replies, but another way is
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>FUNCTION Form_Has_This_Control
>  PARAMETER PARAM_Form_Ref , PARAM_Control_Name
>
>  LOCAL int_Control_Count
>  LOCAL int_Control_Index
>  LOCAL str_Control_Name
>  LOCAL boo_Value_To_Return
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>  boo_Value_To_Return = .F.
>  int_Control_Count = PARAM_Form_Ref.CONTROLCOUNT
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>  FOR int_Control_Index = 1 TO int_Control_Count
>    str_Control_Name = PARAM_Form_Ref.CONTROLS(int_Control_Count).NAME
>    IF ( str_Control_Name = PARAM_Control_Name )
>      boo_Value_To_Return = .T.
>    ENDIF
>  ENDFOR
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>  RETURN ( boo_Value_To_Return )
>ENDFUNC
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>may want to do ALLTRIM(UPPER(X)) on both items in IF stmt.