>>>Can't be done!
>>>
>>>Or can it?
>>>
>>>I'm used to creating variables in the Dos report generator relatively painlessly using cut and paste techniques to reduce the amount of retyping.
>>>
>>>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.
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>Maybe Harry is trying to paste in the expression builder, and you, directly in the box?

I did try in the box, not the expression builder. Nope - Ctrl-C/Ctrl-V work in the Expression builder, too, apparently, from a quick trial a minute ago under VFP6 - took a field, grabbed it's expression from Expression builder, added a field to the report, and added the field name from the paste buffer in the expression builder.