Agnes,
I intentionally placed (roughly) :)
IOW I was lazy to go into details, like it might not exist (actually also placed *... comment for error checking:), it might be null etc
If the only intuitive way of doing it was _screen.forms collection (which would fail say when top level forms used) I might not be lazy for a better code :)

PS: I didn;t directly put refresh in loop just thinking once I get it probably would return it or would do more things with it.
Cetin

>Cetin,
>
>PMFJI
>
>What happens to your code if there is no form named 'mani'? Why not:
>
>

>for ix=1 to _screen.forms.count
> if lower(_screen.forms[ix].name) = "mani"
>    _screen.forms[ix].REFRESH()
>    exit
> endif
>endfor
>

>?
>
>Agnes
>>>Hi
>>>
>>>Very simple question - I normally refresh forms with thisform.refresh but the form I need to refresh is not the form that has focus
>>>
>>>Its name is mani
>>>
>>>mani.refresh doesn't work - what is the correct syntax?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>
>>>Colin
>>
>>Colin,
>>Is mani object reference name or just form's name ?
>>You need the object reference.
>>If mani is a single unique name among all forms on screen then you might find out its obhject reference traversing _screen.forms collection. ie:
>>(roughly)
>>

>>for ix=1 to _screen.forms.count
>> if lower(_screen.forms[ix].name) = "mani"
>>    oMani = _screen.forms[ix]
>>    exit
>> endif
>>endfor
>>*...
>>oMani.refresh
>>

Cetin