>Elyse,
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>You really CANNOT do this with AddItem - it is my "pet peeve" with VFP and its documentation!
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>I strongly suggest that you use the List property to do what you need . List doesn't seem to be an "action" type function, but it actually is!
>The undocumented "problem" with AddItem is that each invokation results in a new row being added *BY DESIGN*.
>You could achieve success with AddListItem, but if you ever plan on deleting any of the rows, then STAY AWAY FROM THIS ONE TOO! List does anything most people need except to "maintain" an ItemID list.
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Thanks for noting that you must use AddListItem, not AddItem. Then it works fine...But I'm not sure what trouble deleting you're referring to, RemoveListItem works fine AFAIK if used properly...that is, it's no worse then a single column list with RemoveItem...