>Barbara, Thanks for responding so quickly. I've pretty much given up on Grids. If VFP7 enables arrays to directly populate Grids I'll take another look at them, but for now they have too many "bad habits".
>I checked out DBC's and they appear "fragile" (i.e they break easily) and the clients I mostly deal with are very small businesses that don't have any support staff so I'd end up fixing them myself.

What do you mean 'fragile'? the dbc is not different from any other table.
I have no problems with the dbc's per se.
Can you explain your difficulties

>Currently, I'm building several systems for small business that will operate on a single PC. I'm not using buffering so I can't use the TableUpdate() command.
>It's disappointing that something as basic as a one-to-many relationship cannot be built in a straight-forward way. If nothing better, I'll build a global array in the main form, call the modal child form, do all the heavy lifting (add,delete,etc) in the array, and display the data in a EditBox.
>Thanks again. Bill
use views!

Peter