Updating Labels Upon Show()?

My project will end up with several forms to be filled out. Once a form is completed, a button can be pressed revealing the next form or previous form if something is going to be changed. I've been using Me.Hide() so that the users screen doesn't get to cramped.

I'd like a few things to happen. If an input from one form changes a value on another I'd like it to update automatically, I figure some event on button_click or form_load. My problem is that different things work depending on how I open or hide a form. I would also like the forms that have been Me.Hide() to retain the value in the textboxes. Let me show you from a practice vb project so that you don't have to dig through the larger code.

Public Class Form1
Public Shared Info1, Xcord, Ycord As Double
Private Sub Button1_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button1.Click

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1) If I don't use "Public Shared", TextBox1.Text does not update.

2) If I reopen Form1 with the "Dim First As New Form1" method it seems to refresh the Form1_Load. If I use My.Forms.Form1.Show() it does not. Another side effect is that clicking the close button on the ControlBox ends debugging when using "Dim First As New Form1" and does not when using My.Forms.Form1.Show(). Wierd. I've set ControlBox to False on Form2 and Form3, otherwise the program remains running in the task manager. I've read other solutions to that problem, but my solution seems to work for me so far.

3) Xcord and Ycord are my attempts to have the other forms open on top of the first form. My problem now is that I have them set to CenterParent and they open where the first form used to be. If I move Form1, Form2 and 3 open where I've left them instead of centered on Form1, maybe. Form1 is set to WindowsDefaultLocation. My new plan is to set to manual and have Xcord and Ycord update and then offset based on form size. So far I haven't implemented that code.

4) Me.Close() ends the program.

Public Class Form2
Public Info2 As Double
Private Sub Button2_Click(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Button2.Click
Dim First As New Form1 'Done so that Form1.Info1 works
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I'd like a consistent method that represents good programming practice. My understanding is that Public Shared is frowned upon. I'm also wandering if Me.Hide() is the right choice. I've also played around with .ShowDialog() which didn't work?