>Tom,
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>In addition to John and Nick's practical comments, I'd strongly urge to pick up a couple of VFP books. Given your question, you might particularly enjoy Effective Techniques (Booth and Sawyer) and Advanced Object Oriented Programming (Egger). Both are available at www.hentzenwerke.com and amazon and b&n.
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Excellent suggestion, Nancy. I finished Effective Techniques last week. Highly recommended. I'm now starting into Advanced OOP.