VFP 6.0 sp3 is a poor COM client in some ways, although that might not be relevent to this problem. I was glad to see that they fixed some things in 8.0. Good luck.

Gary

>Hi Gary,
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>Thanks for that. I'm not sure the AS clause is supported in VFP 6.0 but that's exactly the kind of thing I'm looking for.
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>Regards,
>
>Ben