>>That is my problem. I used a filtered table in a grid. Now I know I need to reprogram. Thanks a lot.
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>I still work with VFP 6, and heard rumors that the performance in this case has been improved in later versions - but I am not sure.
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>At Bata/Bolivia, I got dramatic speed improvements by changing to parameterized views. Unfortunately, that requires some changes in the code.

In VFP9 there's new Optimize property. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dv_foxhelp9/html/1965efce-dfdd-42ab-97a0-01513d9cb103.asp