Hi Chuck.

>> I am new to VFP6 (coming in from the cold of VB3). <<

You should do yourself a favor and check out www.Hentzenwerke.com. There are several excellent references that will really make your life a whole lot easier. For beginning with VFP, I would first suggest WHil Hentzen's "The Fundamentals" and as a supplement to the Help File "The Hacker's Guide" (Granor/Roche). For several working examples, once you have some knowledge of the VFP basics, try "1001 Things You Wanted To Know About Visual FoxPro" (Akins/Kramek/Schummer). This, BTW, also has about 10 pages with classes, and working forms in chapter 6 on Data Entry Grids.

Marcia