>When you move the recordpointer in a table, the recordpointer moves also in the related child tables. So far, so good ...
>When a field in the parent table is replaced and it's the key field involved in a relation, the child table doesn't move if needed. (If you try this using 2 browse windows, it works OK, but not if you REPLACE the field).
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>How can the child table be forced to move to the correct record.

select parenttable
goto recno()

This causes a refresh of the relation.