>Can't be done!
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>Or can it?
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>I'm used to creating variables in the Dos report generator relatively painlessly using cut and paste techniques to reduce the amount of retyping.
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>When I try this in a vfp report, the CTRL-C command replaces the existing code with a single ascii character. Not very friendly.
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Something is squirrelly here - I can use Ctrl-C to copy and Ctrl-V to paste with no problems in the report writer under all versions of VFP. The only thing I can think of is the keyboard compatibility mode, which I have set to Windows rather than MS-DOS, but that's the default IAC.