>>This is probably a silly question but is there any way to make a cursor read/write in VFP 5?
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>James and Cetin got the answer for you... but some good news, in VFP7 you can create Writeable cursors.

Well, to be precise, Cetin gave the correct answer for you and James gave some strange answer for you, but, if you can wait a little for VFP7.0, you would not have problems at all :)