Thanks everyone for all your help.....The way i have chose to do it is

CREATE CURSOR operator_cur (operator_fullname C(50),operator_id N(10))
INSERT INTO operator_cur (operator_fullName,operator_id) VALUES ("ALL",0)
append from operator fields operator_fullname,operator_id

I have then set the rowsource to operator_cur, this works quite well, but someone here has told me this isn;t very good as it doesn't follow the conventions of other languages ie cursors are always thought to be readonly, what are your thoughts ???????

Nicky