Sandy,

You might explore using the form or control error method to trap an error before getting to the tableupdate and issue your own message. Or if you check the return value of tableupdate and it's false, then you can, again, issue your message and do whatever damage control you need.

If you don't like the choices with Messagebox() (and a lot of folks don't) then you can always create your own. But Messagebox() does give you flexiblity on what buttons are displayed, caption, etc.

>Victor,
>The problem is that VFP5 does not allow us access to the type of messagebox that is appearing unless someone can tell us how to access this feeature from inside the dbc. In fact, messagebox does not even offer a "revert" command nor a help command!
>
>Sandy