Thom,

Good one! thanks for that....

>If instead you did something like:
>
>SELECT APN AS Status, SPACE(25) AS FullStatus ;
>FROM MyTable ;
>GROUP BY Status ;
>INTO TABLE ShowStatus
>
>UPDATE ShowStatus ;
>SET FullStatus = GetDesc(ShowStatus.Status, "APN")
>
>SELECT MyTable.*, ShowStatus.FullStatus ;
>FROM MyTable, ShowStatus ;
>WHERE MyTable.APN = ShowStatus.Status ;
>INTO CURSOR Disp2Grid
>
>Then GetDesc() will fire less than a half dozen times. Additionally, you can optimize the queries
>for better performance.