::frown:: This is indeed odd. I just hope your solution isn't masking a more fundamental problem. But, I'm at a loss as to what to add that hasn't already been suggested. Good luck!

>Nancy and Mark,
>Thanks for both your suggestions. However, SET DATABASE TO and REQUERY with specified-alias does not work. This is the strangest problem I've ever encountered with VFP! Usually, it's some logic error (which is of my own doing) and can debug it in few hours or at least in a day or so. This, however, got me totally frustrated. It's not like I don't know how to work with views since most all my forms use them (almost exclusively) but...
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>The only workaround (hope temporary one) is to open the table directly and use it to add new recs OR create a duplicate view (identical in every way) and use it to add new recs. Pretty weird.