I would bet that a lot us may have found it easier to simply define a form as "a main form" and the define "child" forms as "inside main form", and never really learned to use form set. It just may be easier for our lazy nature to understand the relation between a parent and children, rather than a bunch of brothers and sisters with out a parent (the form set). IOW: I never figured out Form set. I tried for the first 15 minutes, when I opened my first VFP license, and then opted for one form as "main" and subsequent forms as "in a main form".

That ER is a real machine - aint he!

>Thanks Mike
>I'm not expecting a book on why not to use the formset and i understand that every is busy.
>Except For Ed Rauh :-) (over 9500 replies over 2 years).
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>I under stand this of a form manager and using a formset to cascade would be very hard. But all i was looking for was a very good reason of not to use a formset. I'm the type of person that has to have absolutes...i will find the pros and cons of this as we speak now i'm researching this issue. I will come back with a list and then the Thread can disect it.
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>TKS
>Shawn