>Are there cases where your users view/manipulate any data (fields) directly, themselves? Such as browsing or tailoring reports or queries?

Geez - I certainly hope not ;-) - We're all SQL Server (no VFP data), So if I needd that - it is easy enough to alias the fields.


>As regards "industry standards", I guess the lack of such an argument means that there is no standard for this -

I am concerned with the way case tools seem to want to push you in this regard

Thanks,