Ian, Having become thoroughly familiar with SpeedBMD I have now changed to WinBMD and am having a problem with forenames that is really slowing me down. In SpeedBMD if I tab from the Surname field and then tab again the previous forename(s) is auto-entered. When I know that the next forename is the same as the previous one I tend to tab twice automatically. In WinBMD when I tab from the forename field the first name on the picklist (Ann) is auto-entered. That's OK if I need to repeat Ann but if I am inputting a series of any other name, for instance 'Mary', I find that I am continuously backing-up to change the forename from Ann to whatever. Can you change the forename field so that on hitting tab it defaults to the last entered name rather than to the first name on the picklist please? (à la the Surname and Districts fields). I believe that the present situation is conducive to incorrect data input because I found that I had incorrectly entered three records before I noticed what was happening. This obviously would not be a problem for anyone who is not familiar with SpeedBMD but *I* am finding it a *real* pain in the posterior. Geo.