Documentation says the VFP Integer Range is from -2147483647 to 2147483647, but I'd say it's simply a documentation bug. So if -2147483648 would also be a VFP integer, not only a C++ integer, the rest of the bug is, that SEEKing values out of the field type range doesn't work.

It's not very satisfactory, but I'd say it would make a seek slower if there is a type conversion needed to compare to larger numbers. So I'd bet it's by design.

Have you tried other seeks, eg seeking a C(11) expression in a c(10) field or seeking numbers out of range of a fixed point Number field?

Bye, Olaf.