>>I was looking for something in the object browser and notice following:

>>Constant wdAlertsAll = -1
>>Hex: -0x00000001, Bin: 11111111
>>Member of Word (cached).WdAlertLevel

The part that get me curious is

Hex: -0x00000001

I never encountered negative hex numbers before. Shouldn't it be?

Hex: 0xff

>
>If it's a DWORD, then it should be 0xFFFFFFFF. The binary representation you show is only a byte. Generally, bytes are unsigned, words and dwords can be signed or unsigned. Why the representation the way it is, I can only guess.

I just tried

? -0x00000001

and VFP shows it as -1. At least it works in VFP.