>Here's additional information on the problem -
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>I go to the command window and open the form such as USE myform.scx and then BROWSE. I open the Memo field Properties and everything looks good in all Property Memo fields in the Form File. But when I look at the same object properties in the form window view, the Top = 0, the Left = 0 and the HelpContextID = 0. I don't know why the difference. I hope I am looking at the same .SCX file. Hmmmmm...

What woul happend if you change HelpContextID mamualy in the browse instead of progamaticaly? Can you post code you are using to update properties memo field?

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>I also noticed that the .SCT file grew by about 23K from 157K to 180K, maybe that's another clue. I have not worked with the .SCX file much from the command window so I don't know enough about it at this point. Thanks for the help.

That's the way memo fields work in foxpro. If foxpro cannot fit modified memo field in the existing block(s) it writes it at the end of the .fpt(sct) file. The previously used memo blocks get lost until PACK is done on the table.