Carl and Larry,

I don't think this is a "bug", but rather I *believe* that it is the "standard" Xbase way of dealing with "scope".
In ordinary folks terms. . . 'if the current work area is at eof(), then any other work area is also assumed to be at eof()'.

I think it was VFP 3 which introduced the "IN" clause to many of the commands, essentially allowing us to address each relevant work area specifically, thus overcoming the assumption which is inherent otherwise.

Cheers,
Jim N

>>I believe that you are running into a known bug. The bug is if the
>>currently selected area is eof() then a "REPLACE otherarea.field..."
>>doesn't work
>>
>I'm with you on this, too. I know I've run across it before.
>
>And, I don't know whether or not this applies here, but sometimes
>an implicit scope for NEXT 1 doesn't work as expected. I've found
>in the past that sometimes a REPLACE WITH will
>not do a thing (including no error message), but if I add the
>explicit scope clause in, "NEXT 1", to get a REPL NEXT 1
>WITH , it works and life is good again.
>
>==Carl