A-ha, now at last I woke up, and see what you ment. My meaning was not rally to multiply by anything other than 1, my meaning was to force VFP to make the field wide enough. Big blunder by me, I'll go splash some cold water into my face. (Where's that hole in the ground?)

>>The next thing now will be that this thread mysteriously disappears. Or I'm banned from here. :-)
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>That's what they do to folks who multiply answers by very large numbers ;)
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>Sorry, couldn't resist *grin*