Thanks Craig,

>>1) Enabling/Disabling controls for the current record. Sould effect the first displayed record when the forms starts and consequent movement of record pointer.
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>A custom method on the form that will do this for you. However, IMO, its better to always leave the records editable. See Windows GUI standards for my reasoning on this.
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>>2) Checking for & Generating default records on a table by table basis when the app starts.
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>In your startup code someplace.
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>>3) Is there an after record pointer move method for a form.
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>No. Forms don't know anything about data.