I have never used a view, so how am I going to tell anyone else how to use one


>Why not just use a view?
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>>Well Steven I would say to do a work around and not a filter
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>>select recno() as recno, *; && record number and every field
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>>then get _TALLY
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>>n_tot = _TALLY && returns number of records returned by query
>>then upon exit of the form update the orignal table
>>do while n_tot <> 0
>>select tmp_tbl
>>m = tmp_tbl.recno
>>select org_tbl
>>goto m
>>replace org_tbl.a with tmp_tbl.a, org_tbl.b with tmp_tbl.b
>>n_tot = n_tot - 1
>>select tmp_tbl
>>skip 1
>>enddo
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>>this will replace everything, which is not what you want but it is on the right path, you could add a logical field called "change" and make it "T" after a record is changed, then only update those records
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>>hope this helps
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>>>I need to be able to update the records with the grid.