>>>Have seen it asked here before, but don't remember if anyone had an answer. Is there a way to get VFP to show the real field names in a browse, instead of the field caption?
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>>IF !EMPTY( ALIAS() )
>>	SELECT * , .T. ;
>>		FROM ALIAS() ;
>>		WHERE RECNO() <= 100
>>ENDIF
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>Yeah, I can do this, but this is not for a program, but for my own use when programming. I often have to remind myself what is in certain fields and what those field names are, and just issuing a BROW in the command window is the fastest way to do this. I think disabling VFP's behavior of using the captions in the browse would be a nice option.
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>SET BROWSEHEADER OFF

Actually we use this in development all the time. There are many times when I need exactly what you are desribing in the above paragraph. I didn't know there was another way to do this. Although I agree, there should be an easier way.