>I wouldn't give unknowledgeable users to make any judgements based on field names (even long ones:). It's possible to utilize Field's Comment property to get something really descriptive.

But Comments don't appear in the ODBC tables that I've been working with...
I guess I'm speaking for myself here, too, I like more description, and don't care for strung together abbreviations like Coname_srt...I might mention, though, not to get too carried away with long names, much as like them...we had some Sybase people with names that were ridiculous, something like

Company_Item_Description_Including_Accessories :)