In addition to what Denis said you might want to look into the autoinc field type (if you have vfp7 or8). I have nothing but good things to say about autoinc.

Einar
>Hi Denis,
>We have several users using the same program simultaniously and need to create new customers. It is not practical for me to create a customer record manually everytime they need it. I want to get it done thru the customer creation program itself.