>Im updating some old systems here to VFP 5.0 (from 123 for DOS and FP2.5) and most of the data is not to be reused. Based on that, I started from scratch, the existing work at best acceptable - worthy of redoing anyway.
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>However it would be nice if I could copy the customers records (which are just adderesses) from the old table to the new one that I have (re)created.
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>The obvious way would be just to do a little program with a
>DO WHILE !EOF (or whatever, in VFP)
>then copying all the required fields, incrementing the old table's pointer, and creating a blank record in the new.
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>Is this (method) a good idea? Are there any tools that would let me point and click my way to victory? :)

That's quite acceptable. Also, you may consider another way: copy old table to new location, rename it, include to new DBC and modify structure to get new table.