>Hi Sergey
>
>>The SCATTER NAME MEMO and GATHER NAME MEMO do support memo fields.
>
>So I GATHERed, please forgive my pun *g*.
>
>Anything to scatter from the cursor into the current record? I will require the EXCEPT equiv. functionality so I can stop the primary, foreign and serial nos. and IDs from being trashed.

In VFP9 it could be done quite easy by removing those properties with REMOVEPROPERTY() function.
What you can do is to update those properties in the object from the current record before GATHER.