Hi Hilmar,
Thanks for the info. Of the three answers I have gotten back, your sounds like the most feasible for me. Because my table has some 120+ fields in it and I only need to check the specific fields that end with a specific code, I can do this in a loop.

Thanks,
Beth
>You can use field(index) to get the field name, and evaluate(...) to get its contents.
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>If you use buffering, you don't need to store the original information anywhere else; VFP does it automatically. Use the oldval() function to check for the value prior to the most recent changes.
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