The combination of the field length of 10 and no notation for new development is awful. We had to actually argue to use "m." for variables, but it was finally accepted once I proved how it could be damaging not to use it. The only thing that gets any relief is cursor names. We use MycursornameCursor. I had a fairly lengthy discussion here about naming conventions about a year ago when it was a pretty hot issue in our shop. Sometimes, after all the dust settles, you just do what you have to in order to pay the bills. <g>

>That must be awful. How do you know a field is for a name if you can't specify what it's for? After all that is notation too.