>>Where this change to design is documented?
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>It isn't. However, it is so different than the previous behavior, that I would have to presume it was done by design. I'll have to check my home box to see if the behavior was the same as 6.0's since I don't have access to 7.0 without SP1 here.

In VFP7 is the same behaviour as in VFP7 SP1.