Tks for all for the confirmation.
Actually, the way that I feel accross this problem is that I was trying to test my error handler and inserted the reference to the unknown variable into the report.
I am not a happy camper :(

>Allan-
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>>So we are out luck [politely :)] in the field.
>>We are totally relying on the end-users observations and memory as to the fact that there was an error and the contents of the VFP error message?
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>As Nadya mentioned, in 7.0 and earlier versions of VFP, yes. It's actually quite a good reason for upgrading that I hadn't put on my list of "Reasons Why" for clients. *s*
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>FWIW, I always wrap expressions in reports that rely on variables being in scope in conditional IIF statements. Just wanted to mention it, obvious though it might seem.