Frank,
tha's the problem,..I have even tried your methid of using the Wizard but that didn't work either,...is there something I left out?..whatelse do I have to look out for?

tks Jeff
>I am assuming you are using VFP 5.0. A really simply thing to do is to use your form wizard to set up a very basic "one-to-many" forms. From there, you can adjust and add fields as necessary.
>Frank