That can be done of course, but then it will actually print data from those records. I could build a temporary table with XXXXs for data, but sheesh! The sample keyword was a message box that allowed you to print samples indefinitely before running the actual labels and it filled the label with XXXXXs... for alignment. I could manually code this of course, but it was already built in. It is strange that it periodically works as it should, and then won't at times. Strange!

Tracy

>>I have code that runs in both FPD26 and VFP7 to print dot matrix labels. It works fine in FPD26; however, in VFP7 about 50% of the time VFP7 ignores the SAMPLE keyword in the label form command. Any ideas how to get it to see the SAMPLE command and recognize it? It's very strange. The label form was actually done in FPD26 and runs in both versions fine except for this one issue. If VFP7 is not supposed to recognize the SAMPLE keyword anylonger, then why does it recognize it some of the time and how else do you print sample labels for alignment on dot matrix printers?
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>Never used Sample, and have printed labels just about a dozen times... so, for a workaround, how about Label... next n?