>Hi George,
>
>I see in a later message that you're taking the table out of the picture completely.
>
>Thing is, I believe the 'natural' case is for there to generally always be a table selected. So I'd suggest that THAT table should probably go but that some table, probably with somewhere around 30 fields in it (just a SWAG) should be selected prior to running.
>After all, m. truly does have NO significance when there is no table selected.
>
>cheers

Hi Jim,

I've tested this under a number of situations. With and without a table selected in the current workarea. Without any tables open. With two tables open (one with 30+ fields that's unrelated), both with either table selected and no table selected.

The end result seems to be that using "mdot" in referencing an internal object slows the process down in each case.

Thanks for the feedback,