>>>>Do you guys have the same problem that I do in VB, the IF...statement? Seems like everytime I write one, and the end of the line, I hit return and: "Expected Then".:-)
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>George,
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>i believe the reason for this comes from the old days when IF was not structured with an endif.
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>You could write:
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>IF var1=var2 THEN x=true

And you still can.:-) And even

IF var1 = var2 THEN x = true ELSE x = false

(Now before anyone gets on me for this example, it's just an example. We all know that x = (var1 = var2) is better< bg >).

>But I agree it happens to me all the time although you could turn syntax checking off (if you dare).
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I don't think I'd want to. You know the situation, "I've just washed my hands and can't do a thing with them"< g >. The syntax checking gets more typos than I'd care to admit.:-)