http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-26T06:31:43 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/Developing_ColdFusion_MX_Applications_with_CFML/UDFs4.htm#825 There is a statement above, in the section "cffunction tag function definition format" which asserts that CFARGUMENT is required for named arguments: <br><br>"You must use cfargument tags for required function arguments and named optional arguments."<br><br>While the first part of the sentence is true, the second is not. You can indeed access named arguments without a CFARGUMENT. The following works:<br><br><cffunction name="sayHello"><br> <cfreturn "Hello #arguments.name#!"><br></cffunction><br><br><cfoutput>#sayHello(name="bob")#</cfoutput> carehart@systemanage 0 0 2003-01-03T09:40:00 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6/Developing_ColdFusion_MX_Applications_with_CFML/UDFs4.htm#307 Consider me your personal proofreader.<br><br>In the table about cfArgument's parameters: <br><br>required (Optional)<br>A Boolean value specifying whether the argument is required, If set to True and the argument is omitted from the function call, ColdFusion throws an error. The default if False.<br><br>That last sentence should be "The default IS False".<br> srhcfmx 0 0 2002-06-04T17:30:00