>I must be losing the plot...
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>I have the following line of code
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> REPLACE IDNO WITH jcIdNo
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>On compiling I get the error "Command contains unrecognised phrase/keyword"
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>If I change "IDNO" to be anything else it works! It is as though IDNO is a keyword. The problem is that this is a field name in an underlying table and is not something I wish to change.
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>Am I missing something very basic here?
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I don't know the technical answer but have you tried prefixing the field name with the table name? mytable.IDNO?