>You can even have a decent size font for it... as my monitors are getting bigger, I find the font in VFP's native expression builder (and Modify Structure, and PEM zoom window, and...) less and less readable.

Don't kid yourself. I have the same problem. It turns out to be that it is not the monitors getting bigger or the fonts getting smaller. It is related to a medical condition known by the acronym A.G.E. Unfortunately they didn't tell what it stands for. {g}