>>>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.
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>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.

Maybe this 'trick' helps:

LOCAL loCol as Collection, loItem, loFound

loCol=CreateObject('collection')
loCol.Add(_SCREEN,'test')

For each loItem in loCol
	loFound=loItem
	EXIT
EndFor
? loItem.Caption &&Doesn't work
? loFound.Caption &&Does work

Regards,