>>I always use m. for variables when it's required. But in this particular case we wanted to shorten and simplify the code. Otherwise I would leave my original code where I was testing for existance of the field and building Insert command as a text variable.
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>remember EMPTY(FSIZE("FIELDNAME")) for testing for existance of the field.

Why type("Table.Field") = My type is not better? I think FSIZE behavior depends on the environmental settings.