Thanks for your detailed reply. I told you that my brain was fried. I looked at that help file multi times yesterday and missed that note each time (slapping keyboard against head in frustration). That is exactly the situation I have. I will be adding the IN clause to ensure that the REPLACE is made. But just for the fun of it, I also added a GO TOP statement right after the ELSE and that also worked thus proving your point. Thanks again.

>Hi,
> As others have noted you will be at EOF() if the seek fails, and you cannot write to the phantom record (term for empty record that appears to be at end of table). The other bit of info that you are missing is in the help file
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> Note If the IN clause is omitted, no replacement occurs if the record pointer is at the end of the file in the current work area and you specify a field in another work area.
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>So you need to ensure that the table you are trying to replace in is not at EOF, and you should use the IN clause to allow replacements to occur in a different table than that which is selected without having to worry that the current table may be at EOF. This is a well known FoxPro bug, the IN clause is the new work around.
>HTH,
>Ned