>>>Thanks a lot, Nadia. I'll have a look at that in detail presently. Just one thing: I'm still on VFP7 and thus don't have the Try ... Catch facility (and not sure what it's all about, for that matter).
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>>>Terry
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>>What about your second question? Instead of TRY/CATCH you may use your general Error Handler.
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>What about my second question?
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>So try ... catch is about error trapping?

In your original message you asked two questions, but I don't understand the second and therefore have to ask you the third time to elaborate <g>

Yes, you got it. Try/catch is a nice error handler mechanism. You have it in other programming languages as well, C++, for example.