>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?

Try running a little program like this:

PROCEDURE MyBrowse
BROWSE NOWAIT LAST NAME ob
FOR i = 1 TO ob.columncount
ob.columns(i).header1.caption= LOWER(FIELD(M.i))
NEXT

Open the table you want and then DO MyBrowse