>Hi Brenda,
>
>Just wondering why you posted this question again? you got a few responses which seemed resonable, did none of them work?
>
>Will

I have just re-read the thread and I see most of the responses were either retracted or unsuitable.. ok fair enough.

What about the solution I suggested, did you try that one?

>Assuming the first column is called fred
>
>On key label Ctrl+I Keyboard IIF(lower(Varread()) = "fred", "", "{BackTab}{ctrl+I}")
>
>then when you want to add a new record...
>Append Blank
>Keyboard "{Ctrl+I}"
>