>The tag does indeed show to be be a candidate in the table designer. Yet still get false when giving the candidate command. However, it appears that when I changed the type of tag to candidate, it changed the tag number from 2 to 8. When I issue the CANDIDATE(8) command I get .T. Thanks for the help

Yup, changing the type of tag basically recreates the tag. The tag number is the order that the tag was created.