>>>If the FOR EACH is doing garbage collection, then that is definately a good thing! I hope I remember this if/when I convert existing apps to VFP 8. This particular app is new so this is the first FOR EACH in it.
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>>I'm guessing, but I think that's what's up. A couple of years ago I reported a bug with FOR EACH and OLE Automation with Excel (even worked a bit with Garrett on a KB article, which I can't seem to locate now). The solution, as outlined in the KB article was to issue a CLEAR ALL in order to release a dangling reference to Excel in memory. Maybe this is the result of that problem.
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>Hmmm, I seem to recall that I had that same problem with VFP and Excel a couple of years ago as well. I have noticed I no longer need a CLEAR ALL. I have since moved on to Office XP and the current versions of VFP as they cam along. So I do not know if the problem was corrected in Excel, VFP or both.

After doing some testing this behavior also exists in VFP 7.0 SP1. IOW, the data type changes to logical as soon as you hit the exit statement.

Surprising that no one noticed this before.