Kris,

There's an article on my website, Q&A, General, qGEN012 that has a program I use to keep views in synch with their tables.

For the field names instead of captions this code comes from Anders Altberg:

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

>When creating a local view, is there a way to retain the captions from the tables that the view is based on? Also, is there a way to use the field name rather than the caption in a browse window?