Bill: Thanks a lot for your help, that is what I was looking for, I sure have missed that function.

>>In an SLQ result with outer join condition to a cursor the columns that don't find a match do get a .NULL. value, is there a way to have VFP put a 0 (zero) or spaces depending on the field type?
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>Hi Jorge,
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>The NVL() function should help you with this.
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>Bill