I am a senior and a volunteer responsible for an art centre membership data base of about 1,000 names which I developed on Q&A in 1993.
For the past 3 weeks, working a few hours a day, reading and following the manuals, I have converted the 2004 records to a Sesame format.
The new form looks great and works well.
My Basic programming knowledge was developed about 30 years ago and since Windows, I have forgotten most of it.
The Q&A program was reliant on lots of keyboard macros. To update records for membership annual renewal cheques, one macro jumped from field to field automatically changing dates, computing tax receipts, mailing addresses etc. Most of these calculated fields were not “entered” in the update process. I have converted most of this macro using IF THEN and GOTO statements.
My questions:
1.      The macro included a F8 keystroke at the end to recalculate the existing record which I could then check for errors before I saved it and went to the next record using F7. With Sesame I can update by using the F8 key but would like to do this with a programming statement in a field. I have tried several options without success. How does one do this? A Manual page reference would be fine.
2.      Is there a book which I could get to bring me up to speed on SBasic or something close to it? The “Dummies” series level would suit me.
3.      My Q&A prepared pre-printed, tractor driven, dot-matrix, carbon tax receipt forms using the “Mailing labels” function of the program. The label was designed to print on a 7” X 4” form using field information. I have not yet reached the write-merge stage of the conversion but the Manual seems to indicate it should be simple. Any hints before I start please? I would like to use up the balance of the forms before I convert to MS Word laser printed forms.
Thanks,
Steve Brady

Thanks for the suggestions, will try them.
Sorry about the typing errors, I did the original off-line on MS Word then cut and pasted. Didn't check to see if paste worked.
Have done another sample from Word.
Test “”
This use of quotation marks seems OK to me here, will have to see what happens when I post.
Steve Brady