MY SURPRISE EXPERIENCE WITH FORMGEN AND DATASTAR by Edward R. Elliott, Arizona KUG, May 1987 (A tip) It all began when I had been using a form I called "log". It was a daily log I used each work day to track my time sheet the company has us make out for our own time worked that day. I felt I could make a better "log", so I took an old log form and put it in formgen and made it much better as far as information it would handle by itself. It still had the same four number key field that tracked the month and day I worked. Then, I started using it at work instead of the old "log". Well, as usual I hadn't done all my homework and it refused to take in information, claiming it had already data in on that date. Here is what I had forgotten to do to make this new log run smoothly. I had the previous year and it had data still listed for the dates I was calling up. Soooo! make sure you clear the "log.dta" file and the "log.ndx" file or you will have a balk that is legitimate but a puzzler till you look it over very carefully and discover your dumb mistake. Formgen and Datastar are copyright names of MicroPro International Corp.