>>I didn't try the messagebox solution (and I'm not using transactions), but I did find a solution!!!
>>I found that a skip 1 followed by a skip -1 allows the replace to take place. Strange...
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>>Things that didn't work:
>>* assuming I was originally on recno 5 doing a goto 6 followed by a goto 5 did NOT WORK. suprising since the skip solution which in theory is identical did work.
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>I noticed your message -- I've been studying the skip 1, skip -1 for another situation, and I've noticed that it does what I might call a "full table refresh," something like what you get when you click on a browse window. The GOs do not achieve this same effect...

There are rather a lot of undocumented behaviors of VFP making it a tough language to become an expert at :(