Thank you for all the replies everyone. I don't know what I would do without all the great help here.

>Randy,
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>I've worked around this by adding a row to the array and defining the field name, type, size, etc. in the new array row prior to creating the cursor.
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>Jim Fisher
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>>Quick response - thank you. I still must be missing something though. I changed the column name to be less than 10 characters - even the field itself is a c(10) now and I get a different error message: Invalid operation for the cursor.
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>>>>You guys have been very helpfull in the past. Thank you ahead of time for any responses.
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>>>>I am trying to add a column to a cursor created by the Afields command but I am getting the error message on the alter statement: Field name is a duplicate or invalid.
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>>>>Select invoiceitems
>>>>ordnumfields = Afields(orditemfieldarray)
>>>>Create Cursor orditemview From Array orditemfieldarray
>>>>alter table orditemview add column toplevelitem c(20)
>>>>
>>>>-Randy
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>>>AFAIK the problem was discussed here and you can not alter cursor to add a field with more than 10 chars.