Thanks David, I will try that. Is this thing (bug?) about PEMSTATUS in the menu documented somewhere in a KB?

>My utility isn't going to find PEMSTATUS induced dangling object references, these are completely internal to VFP itself. You may have to switch to using UDF calls in the menu SKIP FOR. The UDF must bring each call to PEMSTATUS to it's own memvar and then and/or those memvars:
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>use:
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>l1 = pemstatus( ... )
>l2 = pemstatus( ... )
>return l1 and l2
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>instead of doing as an expression:
>pemstatus( ... ) and pemstatus( ... )