>I can't speak for the majority of UT members, but yours is much appreciated than Mr. Petersen's SH&$^#^$ F*$*$&# thread. Mr. Rauh & Mr. Petersen's life preserver (VB) can't make the majority of the end-users happy. To them, VFP marketshare is sinking but here, it's not. Our hands are full of VFP projects to the point of saying "NO" to some clients wanted their systems to be overhauled, some were done in VB/ACCESS.
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>VB is not the Life preserver inside our ship, JAVA is...

Jane Marie, at some point you're going to have to learn some VB or VB variant to do ASP-based web development, to do automation with Office's products, and even to do what appears to be the logical successor to the ubiquitous .BAT file, the Windows Scripting Host. I am not discouraging you from learning java, I'm saying that since you're going to have to learn some VB or VB-derived language constructs, why not invest the effort in learning exactly what VB can do for you. You don't suddenly forget everything else once you've picked up VB.

And some base proficiency makes the statement "Sure, I could do it in VB, but here are the reasons why I shouldn't..." much more credible.