Great, thanks!
I had never used this command, because up until recently I have done all my programming in VFP 6.
>Try SET TABLEPROMPT OFF
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)