>Hi Steve,
>
>Ran across the same thing, and here is what I did...
>
>In the init of the form, the first thing I put...
>Go bottom
>skip 1 && so the form shows without any data
>thisform.show && to show the "phantom" record until a good one is found.
>
>HTH,
>
>Ron
Works fine.
Thanks.
Eric