>Hi Tamar, perhaps there is some field with a default value which returns an invalid value for the field, this causes an error which could be trapped by a TRY...END structure. I had issues with functions used as one field's default value which returned an invalid value for the field, and this prevented the APPEND BLANK.
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Good idea. But it's a free table. Some customers are still running this application in FPW, so we can't use a DBC.

Tamar