Hi Alex,

Here is another possible way to handle this situation that 'might' work for you, depending on the circumstances.

Set the control source for the option group itself to the field holding the data. Set the label of each option button to the value to be stored.

Create a separate stand alone label with the more descriptive term and place it over the top of the option buttons actual label hiding it in the background.

You won't have to write any code for this to work.
HTH
John

>In employee table there is a status field, one byte long. In data entry form there is an OptionGroup that shows full description of each status.
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>In FPD I defined the list of options in the radio button and had a memory variable to hold option selected. A different variable held the value that had come from the table and that later would be REPLACEd there. Conversions were carried out in a procedure that is run each time the record changes and in the valid of the radio button.
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>What is the best way to handle this in VFP? It seems I kind of want to "bind" data to an element of a two column manual list while showing the other column.