>Hi George,
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>>The only place I use the mdot convention is in the command window because Intellisense kicks in.
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>Hmmm, in what circumstance does intellisence not kick in ??
>Intellisense does work without mdot also (at least in a number of cases):
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o = CreateObject("TextBox")

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>The only thing I see is that typing m. will give you a list of variables, to pick from.
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>>The only reason for naming conventions is to make the code more readable.
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>Absolutely. My point however, is that it has a side effect that the collision between variable and fielname becomes highly unlikely.
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Walter,

It doesn't kick in when referencing a declared local variable in method code. It may be my settings, so if you have a solution let me know. Further, it doesn't kick in when referencing an open table in method code either.