>Why do you feel you need to lock the whole table to delete and append? You would only need to lock and delete the one record. There should not be any need to lock when you are appending records.

Actually, that was to routine already in place when I was hired. It works as written so I have not worried about it (If it works don't
play with it <g>).

>There is very little chance of user conflict in my apps so I take the optimistic route and let FoxPro handle it.

We, unfortunately don't have that luxury. :(

>If you USE the non-data table (USE MyReport.frx) you should be able to use IF FLOCK() or IF RLOCK() just as you do with any other table.
>
>As a side note, when I first began thinking of reports, forms, etc. as just more tables, it was an eye-opening experience!

Never thought of that. I'll have to give it a try. THANKS!