Cindy,

I'm still on VFP6. What do you get when you add GOTO 2 into the code? I'm betting you'll get TRUE for all records...ISBLANK() is not firing for each record when you put the table name into the function call. EMPTY() behaves the same way.

CREATE CURSOR aTable (cField C(1))
INSERT INTO aTable VALUES ("1")
INSERT INTO aTable VALUES ("")
INSERT INTO aTable VALUES ("3")
GOTO 2
SELECT ISBLANK(aTable.cField) FROM aTable
SELECT ISBLANK(Cur1.cField) FROM aTable Cur1

>FPW2.6 - ISBLANK() returned True for the second record for both Cur1 and aTable. No errors.
>VFP6 - Returned all three rows as False for the aTable selection and errored on the Cur1 selection.
>VFP7 - Same as VFP6.
>VFP8 - All three records return False, no errors.