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Setting properties on a COM component to create a chart today, and had this block of code:

WITH chart.Axis(2)
   .Title = "Leasing Agents"
   .TitleFont.Size = 10
   .Step = 1
ENDWITH

This caused a syntax error on the .Step assignment. I tried everything I could think of to work around it and finally found a way to make it work by calling an external prg from outside the WITH structure with just this line of code:

   chart.Axis(2).Step = 1

However, calling the same line of code in a function inside the original prg would fail. Finally, a few mintues ago I discovered that this will work in the original WITH block:

   STORE 1 TO ('.Step')

Any idea why the first way confused VFP so much?