>>>You have to be careful using recno because new records in a buffere table may have the same value... don't you have a unique id in the cursor or table being displayed?
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>>New records in a buffered table will not have the same value for their record number. They will have a negative record number until they are committed and then they will have a "real" positive record number.
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>Sorry, Fred I wasn't being clear enough... I was trying to stress that Recno is not a reliable identifier... If you have a buffered table... your recno may return -1 for a new record. Once those records have have been committed a new record could be added which will could also return -1, or you will have problems determining movement in the grid... I would really avoid the use of recno for this scenario... wouldn't you?

Certainly. But that depends on how long your use of the record number is for. As a long time indicator (something stored), it's pretty useless, especially in a buffered environment. But it can have use while you're manipulating things. It would need to be reset anytime a buffered record was commited, as it's record number would now be different. Again, short term, OK, long term, no-way!