I wasn't moving the record pointer. GO TOP solved the problem Many thanks again for your help and patience!!
>a) Be sure you have moved to another record (not the deleted one)
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>b) Be sure that SET DELETED is ON
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>c) Be sure you did delete the record (check that with the debugger)
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>Barbara
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>>I must be missing something. The OK TO DELETE dialog is in the rightclick method of the listbox. After confirming the DELETE, I issued the requery command but the list doesn't update. Any other ideas? THANKS!