Hi Randy.

>> I have a field in my form. I have marked it read-only. I want to put
'ALLTRIM(name.last)+', '+ name.first' in the field. I tried under 'control source', but it tells me that it is invalid. Using the '=' doesn't work either.
How can I do this? <<

In addition to what the others have suggested, if you want to specify this as the textbox's controlSource, just enclose the entire expression in parentheses like so:

( ALLTRIM(name.last)+', '+ name.first )

This tells vfp to evalualte what is inside.

Marcia