Herb,

That makes sense if you're using record buffering. With record buffering an implied TABLEUPDATE() occurs when you move the record pointer.

>Thanks for your suggestions Josh and Erik, I had checked on the obvious.
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>It may be of interest that I finally tracked the cause to the Valid method of one of the get objects on my form. I had issued a GOTO RECNO() in a endeavour to refresh a relation into another table. Guess what? That clears the field state buffer.
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>Regards,
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>Herb Ellerbock