Why do you need BROWSE and why do you replace fields with themself?
It seem that all you need is 'APPEND BLANK'
>ouuu thanks for the speedy answer.
>so i added these lines.
>BROWSE
>APPEND BLANK
>replace name WITH name
>replace age WITH age
>thisform.Refresh()
>
>to the load of the form and it works exactly what I was trying for. thanks much :D
--sb--