Nope. Syntax error. I also tried putting the object reference into a var and macro-expanding it, and every other permutation I could think of before stumbling on the one that worked.

The craziest part of it was the the property assignment worked if I called it in an external prg. So, I assume VFP got confused while parsing in the control structure at the point where the assignment was to be made...

Those lines were in a CASE structure, but for fun I put the one line in the external prg inside a CASE structure and it still worked fine.

>Does this work?
>
>

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

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>>You might enjoy this one...
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>>Setting properties on a COM component to create a chart today, and had this block of code:
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>>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:
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>>   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:
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>>   STORE 1 TO ('.Step')
>>

>>Any idea why the first way confused VFP so much?