Hi, Gary.

>Is there any short cut to scatter memvar and then make all the memvar variables public without referencing each one individually.

I don't know the immediate answer for this question, but I'd rather prefer doing something like this:

public oData
oData = createobject("Empty")
scatter name oData Additive

this way all of your fields will turn into properties of the oData object, that you can use afterwards with a gather, just like you would do with variables (and you don't end up with several public variables - which is usually not good).

HTH