>Hi all
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>I run VFP against a MS ACCESS database via ODBC.
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>the fieldnames are rather cryptic.
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>Customer asks me if I can put a description / header to the fields with ODBC. Can this be done, and if yes, how?

The question is where would they expect to see those descriptions. The other question is where to store them. If you are allowed to write into that database, then just fire up Access and give them captions. If not, you can create some metadata on fox side - perhaps build a view and give it captions for each field where the name is cryptic.