How did you create a cursor? It should be:

create cursor .....

*or in VFP7 and up
select ... from ... READWRITE

*or in VFP6 and below:
select ... from ... into cursor temp
use (dbf("temp")) in 0 again alias YourCursorName
use in temp

And again, what is exactly the field name you try to add?

>Hi Yuri,
>
>The error message is syntax error
>
>Thanks