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>I read your reply as you suggested. While I agree with you that setting dynamic properties is flexible, I do not discern anything in your reply which suggests it "isn't slow if you do this correctly". So far as I can tell, I am doing it exactly as you suggest. What am I missing?

I don't know what you are doing, I do know that just know that setting the current recno the way I do it doesn't have the performance penalty that setting it in other wasys. The dynamic property itself probably looks the same

Arnon