>the edit box does not appear in blank ..it appears the text of hte memo field of the previous record in the edit box. and i us scatter memvar to put tha vairbles as controls source in the text box, edit box, combo box and use gather memvar to save changes too
>Luis Martin

This looks like an old DOS application converted to Visual. I don't think anyone is using scatter/gather technique with VFP. Can you use tables (or views or CA) in tablebuffered mode instead? How big is your project already? Would it be hard to switch?