Quotes around alias-name and TAG-name would also be prescribed.

Good luck,

Jim N

>>>use the seek() function. it does what you are looking for.
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>>Mark,
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>>I tried! It uses 3 parms, right? No matter what I tried, VFP gave me an error stating I was missing a ")". I was not to my knowledge. It's only:
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>>SEEK(eExpression [, nWorkArea | cTableAlias
>> [, nIndexNumber | cIDXIndexFileName | cTagName]])
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>>So I used:
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>>SEEK(myvalue, mytable, mytable)
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>>My table in this situation, mytable, has the same name for both the DBF and CDX file.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>Mark
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>The 3rd parameter is the Tag Name, not the CDX file name.