Hej! Thanks that helped.

I can now save when the record set is offline.
But now I am stuck still trying to update these changes to the server
to the server...

Say I've made the changes offline now I am recconnecting and want to update the server.

oConnection = CreateObject("adodb.connection")
oConnection.Provider = "SQLOLEDB.1"
oConnection.ConnectionString = "Persist Security Info=False;Password=quest;User ID=quest;Data Source=TJM"
oCOnnection.Open()
**Connected again..

**open saved record set

oRecordset = CreateObject("adodb.recordset")
oRecordSet.CursorType = 3  	   &&Open Static Client default 0
oRecordSet.LockType = 4		  &&Lock Batch Optistic  default 1
oRecordSet.CursorLocation = 3   &&Client Side Cursor  default 2
oRecordset.Open("c:\temp\styles.rs")

**try to update server
oRecordSet.activeconnection=oCOnnection
oRecordSet.updateBatch

When I do the last statement the offline changes do not get updated on the server at all and no errors.
I suspect that it's because the change has already been saved in the local cursor file, so how could I solve this.

I'm sure it may be something to do with what you said about marshalling the
data and the filter Idea you gave me. But I don't really get how this would work. Would you be so kind as to provide a code example. Thanks a Mil.

tim