Hi Eduardo.
i had the same problem with a view and i consider it a bug.
Change the width of the field in the view from 20 (the default) to 30, save the view, and then examine the .dbc file by openning it as a table. Find a record in .dbc which corresponds to the field in question. One of the fields in .dbc (i don't remember exactly which) contains the description of data type and length of the view field, look at it and it will contain the length you have entered when you modified your view (30).
So my recepie is: set the properties of all the fields of type C(>20) and then don't touch them because every time you open the view field for edditing VFP substitutes the correct length with the default.

Kamil


>>>>>I have a view on a table. Certain field is a Character type of 30 characters but every time I change to 30 the default of 20 it gives me back to 20.
>>>>>Why?
>>>>>Thank you
>>>>>Eduardo
>>>>