>>For two, APPEND BLANK may generate errors if a primary or candidate key has been defined and blanks are no-no's.
>That's not the case when the table is buffered though, is it?
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>With INSERT INTO, don't you have to populate it from memvars, instead of just APPENDing BLANK and letting the user fill in bound controls?

Actually you will not need in variables here. You can either utilize Control.Value properties or record object properties.