>Janet
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>>Thanks - guess I could have read the help! I'm still wondering why the IN is required when the field is referenced with the table name.
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>Probably because the default scope of the REPLACE command is the current record of the currently selected work area, and you're not sitting on a record in this case.

That's right.
The FP internal default scope for a REPLACE command is
NEXT 1
which refers to the currently selected work area. The the command executes without error even though no replace occurs