>No I didn't try it before posting the question. I was perusing a bunch of my forms changing and improving the code wherever I noticed it could be improved and ran across that code and wondered if it could or would work since I had never tried it. I looked in my 16 FoxPro books and didn't find any example of that kind of code. I assumed it might work, but since I was making so many changes besides that change, I was afraid I might get myself in trouble with all my changes happening in many parts of the form and it would be better to ask about it before I got myself into deep doo-doo. Thanks for your information. I appreciate your kind help. Happy New Year!
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>Sometimes I am a little gun shy about trying things because I feel like I don't have time to try things if I already have something that works. But on the other hand, I have a desire to always try to improve my code wherever and whenever I can.
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>Thanks for your information. I appreciate your time and kind help. Happy New Year!

Steve,

I understand that you would not want to "mess up" anything that works, but I do want to encourage you to try things for yourself because you will learn more that way. What I did was to make a dummy form, add 2 text boxes, opened up the code for the CLICK() of the form and added just barely enough code to see that it worked. Sometimes when I do this I put SET STEP ON so I can be sure when it hits the line I'm interested in.

My hard drive is full of Dummy.*, DeleteMe.*, Temp.* and all sorts of little reports, forms, and programs I've made when trying things out. I go around every so often and clean up after myself!

Happy new year to you too!