Hi Sergey

>>Just for arguments sake, then why did & macro work?
>
>Because macro sunstituion doesn't work on table fields. It only works with memory variables.

Okay, so EVALUATE() was using the VFP priorities: Fields then Variable. And Macro was always meant to be used with Variables, on second thoughts yes I never could and never have thought of doing &table.fld. *g*

Thanks a lot for your explanation.