>>Again, do you mean the scan and seek-replace method (seems quite inefficient) or something more efficient? I was, of course, well aware of the potential solution of doing it this way, in the first place, but I was wondering if there were a "sneakier" way that I hadn't considered/come across.
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>>Secondly, as I said, I am not aware that you can include a select-SQL statement into an update statement in VFP7. The Help does not show you how and I don't know the proper syntax to do it, if you can (I've tried various permutations and can't get past the "unrecognised command" error.
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>You could make grid/cursor/scan/replace looking contemporary by applying table buffering to the cursor and using GetNextModified() when 'scanning' the cursor on save point.

I guess that would be quicker than scan all and seek orig table. Good idea

Thanks