Thanks for all the comments so far! I have not tried Speed Ferret, but I do have a freeware add-in for VB that does much the same thing. David, I do like Hungarian for objects I think - with the exception of table. I know that's not exactly consistent! One thing to consider is that the one place in VB where it's recommended that you NOT use this notation is in public objects. If you're providing users with a class contained in a dll, all the methods and properties should be 'English', not 'Geek'!

Andy