>>Nick,
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>>This textbox is tied to a table field. In order to type in a job no. wouldn't it affect the current record?
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>Do you use buffering? If so, you could just use TABLEREVERT() after your validation to get rid of APPENDed record. But if you check the job_no on the same table - there is a possibility that record pointer moves and with record buffering it will update the table and the empty record will get there. That's why I prefer the scenario where you don't add it in the first place.

Sorry, I din't re-read the original message, Then it is a little confusing. You say it is a table, but you also mentioned SPT, so it probably should be the remote view, or cursor created with SPT, isn't it?