>>You are correct. You cannot do macro expansion in VB, but many people see >this as a problem in VFP. Personally, I think it gives VFP a big >advantage.
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>My goodness! I pull hair out in other environments when I can't have this: particularly when I have a need to cycle through all the columns in a record and don't know if the column names/count will change.

Right, that can be done....how about allowing the user to define part of the SQL SELECT statement at runtime?