Instead of flattening it out, which is what you sounds like you are thinking of doing, make it record based by some sort of code. Then you will never have to change the number of fields in the table, just add another set of records (13 fields).

iKey  cType  xF1 - xF13
1     A1
2     A1
3     A1
4     A1
5     A1
6     A1
7     A2
8     A2
9     A2
10    A2
11    A2
12    A2
13    A2

A2 is a set of 7, A1 is a set of 6.

-w-

>I am building an additional table (.DBF) for my VFP8 application. I'm trying to normalize, de-normalize to maxium efficiency. If this data does not need to be split up (normalized) between 2 or more tables, I'd prefer keeping it in one table. I'll have at least 78 fields (13 distinct entities times a multiple; eg. 6 sets = 13 * 6; 7 sets = 13 * 7, etc.)
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>Thanks,
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>dbk