>Thanks guys - but did I get an answer from all that?
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>I am sharing the table with the memo field and each user does use the table in a table buffered mode. I am changing and adding only about 1000 records.
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>So what should I do to elimiate the bloat.
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>John

Keep the updates as few as possible. Do as much as possible in memory. I have seen code like this

replace cmemo with cmemo+text1
replace cmemo with cmemo+text2
replace cmemo with cmemo+text3
replace cmemo with cmemo+text4

This is creating bloat on demand! Better is

replace cmemo with cmemo+text1+text2+text3

or

lcMemo=cmemo+text1+text2+text3
replace cmemo with lcmemo