>>>I've ended up using the COUNT... function in the grids .When event and in my >custom Form.DeleteRec event. If 0 then I APPEND.
>>
>>Be careful with COUNT, it moves the record pointer. For many apps this is annoying if not dangerous...
>
>Like I said, I'm not totally happy with this approach but it's all I can come up with for now and because I'm deleting records I can't use RECCOUNT so basically I do the following:
>

>ThisForm.LockScreen=.T.   prevents the visual annoyance
>mnrec=RECNO()
>COUNT......
>GOTO mnrec
>ThisForm.LockScreen=.F
>

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>
>Thanks for all the ideas.

Colin - I didn't mention that in my original post but what I do to avoid moving the pojnter at all is as follows

lcoldalias = ALIAS()
USE polines AGAIN IN 0 ALIAS countlines
SELECT countlines

COUNT FOR countlines.idnumber = thisform.idnumber.value TO lnreccount
SELECT (lcoldalias)
USE IN countlines

IF lnreccount = 0
     *** Insert stuff here
ENDIF

*** Refreshes and so on

I am copying this to Erik. HTH