>>Who knows about this?
>>
>>It appears that the character "=" cannot be assigned to a label.
>>Example:
>>THISFORM.Label1.Caption = "="

>If slight shifting is not a problem put a space before '=' : ' ='
>Cetin

Of course, that is exactly what I did, and it looks fine.

However, it is alarming that this has a problem for at least a couple of revisions. On further examination "=abc" & "=123" are fine, but "= ", "=*" etc throw the error. "=()" gives a "Missing operand" error, whereas "=(1)" is fine. This is perhaps a hint that some really ancient preVFP FoxPro code is buried in there.

Thanks
John Burton