>I see your point. I should do an APPEND BLANK to the cursor rpt2 so it doesn't go to a phantom record. That should solve the problem.
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>Thanks for the clue.

Why don't you have a second lookup table, join them and do you SQL Select displaying the lookup field rather than the coded one?

The lookup table would have a code field (probably your primary key), and a description field. Place that as a foreign key in the code field of your first table.