I don't have a beard, but I'll stomp on you. *s*

I have sucessfully used Escape in this manner, and have been doing so for a very long time. It works just fine for allowing a user to exit a loop.

>Hi Nadya and Barbara.
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>I think your using SET ESCAPE in the wrong context - this is actually designed for 'interupting' a program that is being run from within the VFP development environment. The on-line help states: "Determines whether pressing the ESC key interrupts program and command execution" in allmost all cases control is returned to the "Command Window".
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>You should actually be using an INKEY() and testing to see if the return value is 127.
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>Of course I may be completely wrong myself - in which case I can expect the bearded-ones to stomp on me very shortly :-)
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>Houston.