Hi Dorin

Thanks again for your continous help.

>To get fields descriptions you must query the system table rdb$relation_fields
>

>table_name = ...
>SQLEXEC(1,[SELECT RDB$FIELD_NAME, RDB$RELATION_NAME,RDB$DESCRIPTION FROM RDB$RELATION_FIELDS WHERE RDB$RELATION_NAME=?table_name])
>

>Then you can scan the cursor and set caption property using DBSETPROP() function.
>(I'm curious if this function works, because in VFP7 seems broken for "FIELD" type object)

I am using VFP6 so we may get another angle to the problem <g>