John,

There is absolutely no need to link the child form to a parent form property to keep it from going out of scope. I think you just need to step through the code in the trace window and see where it's failing.

>You were right about the scoping issue of the called forms. Ed Pikman popped in and gave me an idea that works fine and assures that the scope is okay. Thanks for spending your time helping me with this issue. I'll be busy modifying many forms and I'm sure I'll be posting another message or two about this subject.