>Hi Ken,
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>Thanks for helping me, but you made me realize something.
>
>Now I am in deep DO DO. I DO want to SCATTER to memory variables and not to objects. Of course all memory variables (m.fields) get confused between the two tables when I bounce back and forth between the two forms because the fieldnames are the same in the two tables.
>

Steve,
1. Perhaps the REGION # and REGIONAL variables will work for you. I'm not sure how to pull it off in VFP, but it used to work in FoxPro for DOS and Windows.
2. You might scatter to an object and bind the controls to the property of the object. I've never tried this exactly, but it ought to work.
3. You could SCATTER and then load the m.Vars into form properties and bind the controls to the form properties.

David.