Thanks - I knew there were technical explanations and I appreciate the followup!:-)



>Hi Terry,
>
>>When closed with myform.release, the form "closed" and vartype() returned "U". With release myform, the form remained and vartype() returned an "X" but did not call the forms release method.
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>With RELEASE myForm, you only released the memory variable reference and not the form itself, whereas myForm.Release releases the form itself and leaves the variable reference holding nothing.
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>Just my 2 centavos worth.
>
>Dennis