/ it will not use the deleted records as the new blank record... will you / look at this code? / thanks again...rob Well, it might need some modifications... since most of the lines were intended for debugging, I wrote a new one, which might work: save_setdel=Set("Deleted") Set Deleted Off && make deleted records visible loca for deleted() if found() recall * this really blanks the record, so it's like Append-ed Blank: blank else append blank endif Set Deleted &save_setdel thisform.grid1.column1.text1.setfocus Wow, this looks good, for a moment I almost wanted to use it myself. On the other hand, it will keep getting slower and slower, once you run out of deleted records and the table gets real big, and... maybe you should check for existence of deleted records upon first time you open the table, or even keep a counter of deleted records, so you don't look for them if there are none. Another way round is to have a tag indexed on deleted(), but it seems like an overkill. Besides, I don't like writing apps where users go on deleting records every once in a while :)