Hi,

>NEWBIE.
no problem :)

The most generic way would be to scan the _SCREEN.Forms collection and compare the names of the forms with the name you're looking for:

LOCAL loFoundForm, loForm
loFoundForm = .NULL.

FOR EACH loFORM IN _SCREEN.Forms
  IF UPPER(loForm.Name) == "MYFORMNAME"
     loFoundForm = loForm
     EXIT
  ENDIF
ENDFOR

IF NOT ISNULL(loFoundForm)
  *-- loFoundForm contains a reference to the found form
ENDIF

You can place this code in global form manager class, so you don't need to have that code in every place you need it.

HTH,
Armin