>My question involves the bolded line for TypeText. I've probably got this wrong, but reading the VB help I got the impression that := was used to pass a parameter to a function by name rather than by positon. The same code in VFP generated a syntax error.
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>I couldn't find an equivalent in the VFP 6.0 help. I'm hoping someone here can enlighten me as to what this is and what a VFP equivalent code would be.

VFP doesn't support named parameters. You have to find what order the parameterlist takes, and pass the parameters in order. Fortunately the TypeText function takes only a single parameter, the Text to output.