Tamar:

I think we have had this discussion before.

I have this overwhelming suspiscion that MS give us stuff that is easy for them to develop. I suspect they got this from Visual Basic or Visual Studio and passed it along.

I cannot believe that the saving if 1 or 2 key strokes (if that) in 2% of the lines that a programmer writes is really that big a deal.

Earlier in this thread, I posted that the biggest benefit of VFP 8.0 for me is that the Debugger works with "Fix" enabled every time. This is a huge time saving for me that I can clearly quantify.

From what I can gather in this thread, Intellisense has a value if you are doing Object Oriented Programming or if you are developing COM objects which I don't do. I think for guys like me who write procedural code, Intellisense might improve the quality of the code if I misspell the word DEFAULT (which is not a problem yet).

I can also see for a new programmer, if he/she wasn't sure of what they wanted to say after typing MODIFY, then Intellisense would be great. But when I type the word MODIFY my brain already has the next word in mind and I don't need a 40 row pick list to choose from (yet).

Anyway, I get the impression that Intellisense may be something like Grids that seem useless at first but eventually grow on you. You know Tamar, I just love Grids now and I am sure you remember very well what I went through with you and Marcia when they first came out.

While I have you, I wanted to thank you for your book "Microsoft Office Automation with Visual Foxpro". It sat on the shelf for a very long time but I lately have been doing a lot of work with exporting customized Excel Spreadsheets, and I got through it really well by referring to the examples in your book. So thank you so much for this.

Anyway, I am going to leave Intellisense alive for 5 more days and maybe an old guy like me will eventually see the light.

Mike Smith