>David,
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>I could get rid of the macro if I am only including fields from one cursor/table which is in this case, so your solution is correct. But when I select them from multiple tables or cursors, which I have to in most cases, then I need to include the alias names lest there should be same field names with different values.
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>Dawa
Not necessary Dawa, you can use from (myTable1) as Table1, (myTable2) as Table2 and then you can name the fields Table1.a, Table2.a etc.
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