Thanks - I must have been dBase-ing during that span of history. But - Maybe - dBase III (and later) did it the same way - and I was [just] hanging on to my old dBase II habits!

Since then - with the the patience of the you and others on the board, I have vigariouly constrained, as much as I can, all my old macro habits for references and evaluate!

Old habits are hard to break!:-)

>Hi Terry,
>
>The name expression is implemented in FOx 2.x so macro substitution is not required

SET INDEX TO (varNAme)

>
>>
>>varName="MyIndex"
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>>I don't have FP26, but I think its something like:
>>SET INDEX TO &varNAme
>>I think the macro is needed in those versions. First make sure you can set the index with the "real" index name
>>SET INDEX TO MyIndex