>Hi Nancy,
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>I have found the problem. A Deleted record with nothing in the data fields except the system generated primary key. In a fix of lets make sure what I looking at is what I (think) I should be seeing I executed a browse in the Init of the form. There was a blank record at the top.
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>Now I'm curious, why this particular view allowed the deleted record but other similiarly constructed views do not...some experimentation is in order.

Glad you found it. Perhaps your SET DELETED isn't being set for this form. Or if you have AutoOpenTables .T. and your settings are happening in the form load, then the view is already queried with the deleted records? In which case you might try using NoDataOnLoad Property.