>Thamnks for the advice, I used VFP help and it was telling me I had to define all the fields again. I'll be taking note of that little trick for the future.
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>The Greatly appreciative
>Perry

Perry, if you are doing a SQL-Select into a cursor from a single table, be sure you add the NOFILTER clause (if VFP5) or else add a new field (SELECT *, .F. as lNew from Mytable.....) if you're working in VFP3. This will prevent the new cursor from being a filtered copy of the original table.

HTH
Barbara