Jim,thnaks for your reply.

I have used bufeering in other apps and agree with you on thier advantages.

In this particulaer projecr however, I neeed to be able to use ScatterMemo name

Regards,

Gerard


>

>SCATTER MEMO NAME MyObj
>
>MyObj.Field1 = Alias.Field1
>MyObj.Field2 = Alias.Field2
>...
>

>
>But you will be fighting an uphill battle all the way as the really easiest thing to do is;
>
>1) Turn on buffering
>2) Edit your copntrosl so they refer to Alias.Field
>3) In save do TableUpdate()
>4) In cancel do TableRevert()