Hi Brenda,
>>>Got an error message on a WAIT WIND Msg - said the msg string was too long. how long is too long. can i just WAIT WIND SUBSTR(msg, 1, 250)
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>>I believe the limit is 255. BTW, for clarity I'd use left(msg, 255)
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>Is 255 the max length for a messagebox also?
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It appears to be 1024, it truncates at that point. No error returned.