>>Eric
>> It may help if you would quit calling your fields &%!#@.
>> Just a thought !!!
>> Hope things are going well and it looks like the guys have you covered.
>>
>> Jeff Butler
>
>I have decided to use only punctuation marks in my field names in an effort to positively avoid accidentally using VFP reserved words. If I discover that there is a VFP reserved word that matches one of my sequences of punctuation marks, I simply change that field name to the actual expletive that the sequence represents. ('$@!' --> 'piece_of_s**t') I also use this naming convention with UDFs and procedures, and plan to incorporate it in my framework (soon to be available for resale). :-)

Erik, another advantage of your new framework would be that the field formatting (!,$ etc) could be included in the field name ;-)

Barbara