>Harry,
>Actually it's worse than you thought

gee thanks Barbara, I really needed cheering up! ;-)

>- the characters keyboarded 'skip' the GetFile() call and will then reappear in your program whenever there's a field to put text in.

yeah, I discovered that for myself. The Keyboard characters caused the program to go berserk as soon as you confirm a getfile() selection

>This is because typing into the GetFile() box doesn't affect the visual choice list at all. You can pick with the mouse or type the file name.


and is this because its a windows dialogue rather than a native vfp one or what?

>
>Unfortunately I don't know any way around it. You may just have to let the user pick his report, or write your own combo box lookup from a list of report files.
>With the combo you can pick any report in advance.

and I should imagine someone's already done it if I go looking in the files section.

Oh well, thanks for the bad news. At least I can stop banging my head against that particular brick wall.

Harry