>Brenda,
>You can add it automatically if you select into a temp table and later erase it. >But it has the problem user also adds alias to new fields. Next time you would >need to process frx programmatically to remove aliases. Yet there is another >better way but fields show in memvar list (advantage you use unaliased >expressions) :

>select * from ;
> home()+"samples\data\customer" ;
> where Contact = trim(thisform.text1.value) ;
> nofilter ;
> into cursor (lcCrs)
>*create report myreport from alias() column
>scatter memvar blank
>modify report myreport
>report form myreport preview


What does the "scatter memvar blank" do? Also, my variable list has lots of other garbage in it. Is there any way to clean it up?

Brenda