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>As to the "->", I found in the Pro 6 tech ref a note about that. They do that to avoid confusion with macro termination and to avoid problems that will happen with the new version of foxpro with the class hierarchies. LOL! It's time to update the manual. I had to read that a couple of times to realize that paragraph must have been written right before VFP came out.
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>Michelle
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I always thought they did it so that it would be clear you were referencing a field in a table, rather than the property of an object.

..........Rich