Ken,

>I am having difficulty in using the default field value. When I use APPEND BLANK to a buffered table or view and place a value in a field and use tableupdate to save the changes, the default value is saved and not the value I sent.

What do you mean by 'the value I sent' ? Maybe you can give us some code to explain what exactly you're doing.

Walter,

>I am using VFP 6.0 w/o SP3 (client choice).
>
>What am I doing wrong?