Vlad,

SNIP
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>Anyway, the question you asked here is very interesting and probably it is good idea to post a wish to the Visual FoxPro .next (Toledo) wish list (accessible from the documents section here). It would be good if APPEND or INSERT will have an option to do not mark record as changed by default values for field. In VFP6 it was ok when using on of these commands...
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>HTH.

This also sounds like another "Behavioral Change" that was missed in the documentation and that should be added to the documentation.

Jim