Hi Cathy,

Unfortunately, SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO could be a real PITA since all variables that are in scope as well as the VFP global variables are listed in this listbox. There is really no way to tell which are variables and which are "fields disguised as a variables" or which table they came from. It also will change the value of a variable of the same name which may cause unexpected results when the report terminates. Also, though in my case I rarely use alias.fieldname for fields on my reports, for those who use related tables but don't use a data environment, there may be no way to determine which alias to preface the fieldname. This is looking more and more like a wish list item to me.

>
>Use code as follows:
>
>

>SELECT MyTable
>SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO
>MODIFY REPORT
>

>
>The variables won't appear in the left side of the expression builder window where all the table fields normally do ... but they will appear in the right side of the expression builder window in the VARIABLE section. You just have to teach your users how this "work-around" works!!
>
>Cathy