>I want to APPEND BLANK within a SET FILTER condition. When I
>run APPEND BLANK, I go to the last record in the SET FILTER condition
>instead of a BLANK record. How can I use APPEND BLANK and
>get FOCUS to a BLANK record?

If SET FILTER gives you problem, I would suggest you do the following:

LOCAL lcOldFilter
lcOldFilter=SET('FILTER')
SET FILTER TO
APPEND BLANK
REPLACE thefilterkey WITH thefilter value
SET FILTER TO &lcOldFilter

From here, you now have your SET FILTER back and are in the new record.