Unrelated to your scatter problem, you may want to change your code from

go top

to

locate

On small tables you might not see a difference, but on large tables it will be tons faster.

P.S. Did not know anyone in Lexington was using the Fox. :)

Jeff

>Thanks for the tip. The issue was not with scatter/gather. I have a routine that exports data in the form of a free table. I use a SELECT-Sql to create my free table. That is truncating my field names to 10 charachters. SO when I go to scatter/gather, they arent getting populated, the field names dont match up. The exported table needs to remain free.
>
>Any solutions, other than renaming all my fields?