Hello Stephen, >>function updateprogress >> thisform.progressbar.value = _tally >>return .t. >Have you ever done timing tests with this setup? How much slower is a SQL query with the updateprogress() embedded as opposed to one without it? Just curious as I'd like to do something like that but am afraid that I'd lose too much time. Yes, I did such a test once. It gave me a ~30% slowdown. I think that it is acceptable (sometime ;)