>I hadn't seen any purpose for me to use data buffering until I just read the post from Martín on another thread I have going. It never dawned on me that I could get a speed increase from using it. I'm gonna give it a go. :)

I don't really know about speed. But I do use it to trap errors, before VFP traps me.

Consider this example:

append blank
replace;
  Field1 with Value1,;
  Field2 with Value2
* or: gather name, etc.

Without buffering, the first command can easily cause an error message, because some rule is violated (the field has to have a value).

With buffering, you can postpone this validation until you have all the data ready, and then issue TableUpdate().