You can do it in quotes:

x='? _screen.Caption'
&x

x='_screen.LockScreen = .T.'
&x

x='Messagebox(thisform.Caption)'
&x

and so on

Gary


>>I had tried a number of combinations but all gave me an error.
>
>Sergery gave you the solution. The reason is because a period terminates a macro expression (although we can usually get away with leaving it off). This is why you also can't use "this." syntax in a macro expression.
>

>local lc
>lc = thisform.runcommand
>&lc.
>