Hi Ian,
You're right! Thanks very much for the tip. The documentation really stinks with regard to how to make this work.
Thanks again.
Ed


>Hi Ed
>
>I had the same problem on a fox 2.6 windows system a good few years ago. The solution we found was to formulate some way of remembering if the BROWSE statement had been issued before.
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>If the BROWSE x, y, CALCULATEDField.... PREFERENCE statement has already been run, I think you just need to issue BROWSE PREFERENCE and not actually specify all the fields and calculated fields.
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>This was a long time ago so I may be wrong, but I might not be!
>
>HTH