Please ignore my reply. I posted that to wrong thread.

>Ooops. This is VFP6 not 7. I'm not ready to take the plunge yet.
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>>>I have two modal forms which share the same memo field. When notes are entered into the memo field in one form, they are not saved and do not show up in the memo field when one form is closed and the other is opened. I'm doing a tableupdate and everything seems ok. Am I forgetting to do something basic?
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>>>thanks
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>>I reported this as a bug in the VFP 7 Beta NewsGroup