Hi Mike

>>It's really funny. In the program that used by several developers my colleague put **** PLEASE DO NOT PLACE "m."s *** at the top and removed m. even from my procedures <g>
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>That's not funny. That's plain stupid. Leaving them in will prevent errors and improve performance. Taking them out ONLY changes how the code looks in an insignificant way.

I just jumped into this thread, so please forgive me if this is already brought up.

What would happen when...

LOCAL lcMyVar

lcMyVar = MyTable.cMyVar

Is this efficient and still avoids the problems and improves performance?