Bruce,
My clients are only developers. This particular one has developed a sort of alergy to views. As a matter of fact, given time, he would be able to turn VFP into a purely procedural language.

>1) Use view to hold data before updating base table
>2) do an SQL into cursor on the view with SET DELE OFF and a flag for deleted
>3) Put the cursor into the grid, use dynamicfontstrikethru for deleted