>I am makeing a invoice form only want to append to the table after the row is totaly filled
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>should I just create a local table for the setup and then append after each line item?

Sounds like a good situation for a View on your base table. Or, you could just buffer the base table, assign the column controlsources to the fields, and check it before doing the TableUpdate() to ensure data's been input, if for some reason you don't have the the time to learn about/implement a view.

But I highly recommend buffering, whether on a table or view, and a view is the better way to go, usually.