>Paige,
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>I suggest using table buffering for everything and not letting VFP do any automatic saving at all.
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>Parent Row buffered
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>Child Table buffered
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>Move in parent, parent is tableupdated automatically, child is not.
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>Child row buffered
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>Move in parent, parent record is tableupdated automatically and child is also.

Huh? No, unless you've set a relation! Are you assuming that if she says parent-child that she has a relation set between them? She never said she does.