>Hi, Nigel
>
>You definitely do not have a syntax error. I once ran into something like this on a project I did. I called a method that created a cursor. Unfortunately the method was in an object that was in a different data session, and therefore the cursor was created in a different data session.
>
>But since you are getting an empty alias IMMEDIATELY after creating the cursor,that can't be it. Must be something along those lines...
>
>Can you post not only the create cursor code, but a good chunk of the code preceding it? Maybe we can spot something. BTW, have you tried running this on a different machine to make sure it is a VFP problem?

This is the offending code:

	lcCursor=SYS(2015)
	lnSelect=SELECT()
	
	Create Cursor (lcCursor) (cTitle c(100), cSubject c(100), cPrintData m)

	lcCaption=toCurrentForm.Caption
	lcTitle=AllTrim(Left(lcCaption, At(':', lcCaption)-1))+" Notepad"
	lcSubject=AllTrim(SubStr(lcCaption, RAt(':', lcCaption)+1))
	Insert Into (lcCursor) Values (lcTitle, lcSubject, toCurrentForm.ActiveControl.Value)
	Select (lcCursor)

*? For some reason, at this point, the cursor is NOT selected so
*? the report print statement displays an open dialogue box.
*? The cursor was being selected in debug mode with set step on!

You see why I'm frustrated?