>Larry,
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>Thanks for the post, I changed monikers and ran the same code against NDS and it worked and I noticed they had manditory properties for the user.
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>Interesting comment about FOR...NEXT, I took a quick peek and some old code and it appears that I have been doing that for a long time. I am not sure how that began...maybe from my Clipper days or maybe as far back as dBase III+
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>...tim

Tim,
Thanks for making me re-read the docs. I didn't know NEXT was valid in VFP. I started putting THEN on the end of my IF statements to make it more in line with other environments I use (VB). I may start using NEXT for the same reason.

Thanks again.