I didn't realize The Warren Group was also a lending corporation? Or is it stats on other lending corporations you are compiling? There are standard abbreviations for that field (someone may post them for you). Typically there is a manual available with the information-it's more or less industry-wide. I would love to help you, but I work in the insurance field and its abbreviations are tough enough!!!! :o) Anyway, what I was thinking is, if you use any abbreviations that are not industry-standard, then what about a label somewhere on the form that contains a legend?

Tracy

>Hi everybody,
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>I have a table with the following fields
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create cursor MMRView (State C(2), ccode C(2), town C(4), County C(15), City C(20), ;
>	Lender C(6), LndrName C(40), ;
>	RankNumAll I, RankNumPur I, RankNumRef I, ;
>	YTDNumAll I, YTDNumPur I, YTDNumRef I, ;
>	YTDVolAll n(14,0), YTDVolPur n(14,0), YTDVolRef n(14,0), ;
>	RankVolAll I, RankVolPur I, RankVolRef I, ;
>	PTDNumAll I, PTDNumPur I, PTDNumRef I, ;
>	PTDVolAll n(14,0), PTDVolPur n(14,0), PTDVolRef n(14,0), ;
>	MksNumAll n(6,2), MksNumPur n(6,2), MksNumRef n(6,2), ;
>	MksVolAll n(6,2), MksVolPur n(6,2), MksVolRef n(6,2) )

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>So, I have different sets of ranking (by Number and by Volume, All (Sales+Mortgages), Pur (Purchase - Sales only), Ref (Refinance - Mortgages only)).
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>Mks is an abbreviation for Market Share, and YTD - Year-To-Date, ;
>PTD - Choosen Month Data (oops, forgot what does PT stand for)
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>I want to display this information in the grid. Rank is a number (each lender is marked).
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>I'm thinking about the caption in the Header for each field. So far I set it to be the field name, but I want shorter and better version. My lack of creativity and English language knowledge makes this little task to be a problem.
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>May be you can come up with a good suggestions?
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>Thanks a lot in advance.