>>>>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.
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>Yes, I now remember you mentioned that you were doing that from the add button. :)
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>Are you using any buffering for that alias? When you do the append blank, are you on the current alias?

with the form wizard, you shouldn't have to add any code. try removing the code and see if it works correctly then.