And, don't put a blank line in a line of continued code...And, to be perfectly safe, you should leave a blank between "WITH" and ";"--otherwise it's easy to end up with something that appears to VFP as WITHHeight.

>put commas between the properties:
>
> ADD OBJECT shpRect AS SHAPE WITH; && <- ERROR at this line
>
> Height = 121, ;
> Width = 289, ;
> Left = 26, ;
> Top = 20, ;
> BorderStyle = 1, ;
> SpecialEffect = 0
>
...snip