>In 2.6 browse allowed the creation of a variable in a browse column to allow things like combining first & last name in a single column.
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>How can I do this in VFP (5.0) ?
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>tia
Presumably you wouldn't want to be able to update thru the grid. You could do it via a view (using a computed field) or by changing the control source to create the string on the fly. I'm pretty sure you can do the latter but you'd take a performance hit. Remember to set the Column.Sparse = .f.
Cheers - Dan
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