>>Why, in VFP 6, in newly added records, do numeric fields appear blank instead of showing zeros? I notice this 1) on a form, where the control sources for the objects are the numeric fields, and 2) when I browse the table.
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>>It creates a problem in my form since I've marked the objects SelectOnEntry, but SelectOnEntry doesn't appear to work on the objects where the control source is a numeric field which has yet to have a value entered into it.
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>This goes all the way back to the beginning of Fox. The fields are blank because there has never been a value. If you table is a member of a DBC, you can set the default value to 0 for all these fields.

In earlier versions of Fox numeric fields that hadn't been assigned a value stored and stored a zero. The tables I'm using are free tables.