Einar,

If you append blank and later want to cancel the changes all you need to do is call TableRevert(). You call TableUpdate() if you want to save the changes. This is by far easier to manage than scatter types of buffering.

>Just wondering about what is better:
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>In an edit-form I use optimistic recordbuffering and link the text-boxes to fields using RecordSource. But to create a new record and show blank fields, I have to use AppendBlank which I then will have to delete if the user wants to break out.
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>If I use Scatter to name, all editing could have been finished before appending a new record. I tend to like that better. But what is pro and con's using the two methods?