Hi Craig

I'm not too sure either. I couldn't get the DO .. syntax to work either so I was none the wiser.

Thanks for your help anyway

Regards
Geoff Scott

>Not too sure about this, but I think the ON ESCAPE is like an interrupt handler, that is it can only be used to interrupt an existing process.
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>running a report for example.
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>However, ON KEY LABEL does the same thing.
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>looking at the VFP help it looks like ON KEY LABEL can run functions but ON ESCAPE can't (i.e. must use DO .. syntax)