Hi Bruce

>Well, as Doug indicated, this is definitely one of those issues reasonable people can disagree on, and usually do. Most people are fairly entrenched in their views, in fact, from debates here in the past <s>

'Tis true ;-)

We currently have an issue with customers who want to create their own reports - to do so requires that they know the actual field names. However, my issue with the use of reserved words as field names e.g. Month, Percent, Name etc. makes me a bit nervous of using English-language words.

I would even be nervous of using cMonth as a field name in case VFP confused it with cMonth().

Best.

Matt.