Look for a Caption property whose first character is an equal sign. Do you have any code that fires when the form loads that sets Caption properties?

>Mark:
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>Why do I get the following error message when I open a specific form. This is the same form that is having the Group By issues.
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Data type is invalid for this property

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>I just keep clicking OK, since I don;t know what it is referring to, and since I have never had that message show up in VFP6 or 7, and the code has run well todate.
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>Thanks.