>I am a new VFP user and still overwelmed by the many options. As I understand things, VFP provides record & table data validation; however, VFP controls the data validation timing and messages. I would like to have maximum control like I had in FP2.6. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

if anything VFP adds more control
FOA as for the msgs you can chage them in the table designer
as for the timing for the triggers - this depends on what triggers you utilize...

Arnon