>Between all of these I am prob just confused with their diffrences
>but all I am trying to do is create a form that has it's own data
>and also has data that is updateable and linked to 4 other tables.
>Mike D.

Mike, I saw your post the other day which I believe was trying to create a grid for this form. Anyway, if I understand what you want to do, I would place a grid or combobox on the form for navigation and individual textboxes for the ani, calling card, etc. I have gotten myself into some situations with complex / multiple grids in a form and you might want to rethink trying to juggle that much. I may be misunderstanding your post but it sounds like you are setting up some single field grids as child tables and though there are some valid reasons for doing this I'm not sure that your application requires that. Take a look at the VFP samples which give a good example of using a grid or combobox for navigation and building parent / child grid relationships. Good Luck,