> IMHO, in FP 2.x it works great. In VFP, you should use it sparingly and use > the table/record buffering when possible. Also you can run into a problem > using the APPEND BLANK and GATHER ... if your table does not allow a NULL > in any of the fields, or the table is related to a parent table using > strict referential integrity (ie setting that does not allow a child record > without a parent record with the same id_field value, NULL or BLANK in this > case). Are you saying that you can't APPEND BLANK on a table that doesn't allow NULL fields? I've had absolutely no problems with this. /Paul