Hi Cetin,

Thanks for your input. I did a bit of searching in the VFP help file for DBSETPROP and field rules for tables are read-only so it appears that I can't "set validations off" :(

Regards,

Mike


>Off the top of my head :
>-You could set validations off (dbsetprop)
>Do your work
>-Restore validations
>Cetin