Thanks David,
We still had it at the default but increasing it didn't help.
Hopefully I can get some info from the guys who wrote the control today.

>Gary,
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>You should probably have SET DECIMALS to at least 3, it defaults to 2
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>>His docs say if an invalid field is passed in, the control will return -999.999.
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>>In VFP 5.0a I'm getting -1000 back. I threw together a quick VB form and called the method with an invalid field yet I got -999.999 back as expected.
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>>Anyone have any idea why I would be getting different results from the 2 languages? Sorry I don't have more info on the control.