>Interestingly, it's more subtle than that. If the initial/default value is numeric, the value of the optiongroup remains numeric, corresponding to the number of the button. If it's initialised as one of the captions, it remains that way. The VFP default is for the value to be 1, hence my initial suggestion.
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>You keep learning in this language!!
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>Mike

Yes, you're right! I've checked my form and, yes, I initialized OptionGroup with "APN", so now it returns char value.

Thanks.