>>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.
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>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.
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>Surprising that no one noticed this before.
I know I have done that before, I guess I just never needed to return the "found" object reference before now. So what the variable flipped to after the looping never mattered to me until now.
Mark McCasland
Midlothian, TX USA