Record optomistic in the tools->data->options (2?), table optomistic in the DE alias (5?), some textboxes and comboboxes, a set of vcr navbuttons. There is a incremental search combo for looking up employee names, a combo for states, and a combo for employee type. The last two have corresponding tables as their source.

Here's an update...I put a SKIP after the refresh and now I have what I want. I just don't understand why. This is VFP6sp5 on Win2Ksp2.

>What bufffering mode are you using? What controls bound to the table do you've on the form?
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>>Hi all,
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>>I have a form using a dataenviroment/buffering. It has a button to add a new record. In the click event is
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>>only the pointer is sitting on record 335/342 instead of 342/342. The table has three index fields, per_code, per_last, and per_name. The table is opened indexed on per_name.
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>>Took out the refresh call and the pointer moves to the new record, but of course the data from prior to the append is still showing. When I put the refresh call in the pointer backs up to the previous record. How do I stop this from happening?