Marcia, (or anyone else who may be able to help)

I tried your suggestion
>>DO FORM Owner NAME oForm LINKED WITH 'MODAL' TO lnMyVar NOSHOW
oForm.Show(1)<<
but I still got the error message "The TO clause can only be used with modal Forms and FormSets".

I removed the 'TO lnMyVar' code from the command and the form runs fine, but then I had the problem of how to capture the return value, so I placed 'lnMyVar=oForm.nRetVal' after the Show() command, but then I get the error message "OFORM is not an object", which suggests that oForm was released when the form was released, even if I initialise oForm before calling the form.

Is there any other way of capturing the form return value?

Many thanks,
Alan