> Please excuse my basic question, but the help windows, > books and other resourses I have are just to limited. > > How do I place a form in edit mode. When it is run > the fields seem to be read only. Unless I opt to use > the form designer's navigator buttonset,I can't seem > to get the fields to let me update? > > By the way, once I've updated the fields... > How do I save them...without hitting the form designer's navigator > buttonset. when you say Form Designer - you most probably mean form wizard if you use VFP's form designer the default state of the fields you'll drop will be editable however you will have to learn some stuff that the wizards shield you from like buffering,Dataenvironments etc. Arnon