Sam,

The correct way is to use IN clause

lcMyAlias = "MyAlias"
lcMyField = "MyField"
REPLACE (lcMyField) WITH "My Value" IN (lcMyAlias)

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>without selecting MyAlias....
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>1) REPLACE MyAlias.MyField WITH "My Value"
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>2a) lcMyAlias = "MyAlias.MyField"
>2b) REPLACE &lcMyAlias. WITH "My Value"
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>The first one works.
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>The second one (2a, 2b), I'm using macro-substitution, comes back with an error "No table is open in current work area." Why?
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