>>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

Thanks. There are all kinds of ways to do it with short procedures, I really wanted a way to do it quickly. I guess I can just put together a function that runs from my global PROC file that takes the table as a parameter...

MYBROWSE()

but (in the words of Andy Griebel) that's still too hard...