>>>Yes, I have thisform.refresh() in the add method. As i indicated above the add button works fine except when I have just
>>>opened the form and have not yet used prev or next button. I tried copying the code from the prev button into the top of
>>>the add button to no avail.
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>>When is the adding code executed? Is it in the Load(), Init(), etc?
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>this code is executed at the end of the click property of the add button.

Yes, I now remember you mentioned that you were doing that from the add button. :)

Are you using any buffering for that alias? When you do the append blank, are you on the current alias?