>>Compile or run this and you get a syntax error. It appears the field name left is not allowed. However, I was able to select it with SQL. This statement has 42 fields in my program and it took a while to narrow it down to this one field. Remove it and it runs, leave it in and CRASH! Anyone got any comments?
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update pageobj ;
>>set left = c_pageobj.left ;
>>from c_pageobj ;
>>where c_pageobj.k_pageobj = pageobj.k_pageobj ;
>>and c_pageobj.k_page = pageobj.k_page

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>Why are you so surprised? 'Left' is twice reserved word in VFP: a property name and function name.

Thanks for the replies folks. The truth is that after taking some amount of time combining two fields into one throughout my entire program late yesterday I was really bent out of shape when it crashed. I realize now I was mostly venting in my post. Sorry. I am much more rational after a good nights sleep. I guess I will also change the top, width and height field names just to be safe.