>Nadya,
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>The FOR clause on APPEND FROM acts on the source of the append not the target.
Exactly what I was thinking. So, where VFP allows you to perform some checks on the data, it won't be able to evaluate stuff like Recno(). Now I think of it, this will be the same as FOR NOT DELETED() won't work (never thought of it this way ;).
Knowing this, it can be solved by having a nRecno field in the source table (obviously equal to Recno()) and you will be able to test for that (with WHILE if possible) ...