>If the View Designer says the width is 20, please don't believe it. The real width is as you've designed. The View Designer is simply stupid.
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>One more thing: let the field which show the width in View Designer alone. If you'll touch it, it will alter your view.
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>Just simply ignore that field. The view is ok. Try making a new view and issue DBGETPROP to obtain the width. You'll see it's allright.
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>Hope this helps

Thanks Grigore

In the past I've never bothered to change the properties (or even to look at them in any detail) it was just that I was showing a colleague the wonders of VFP when I noticed the inconsistency.

Has it been fixed in VFP 7 do you know?

Barry