Paul,

> Well, it kept giving me a "Table has no index order set" error - and LOCATE didn't ;-). According to the help, LOCATE should do a Rushmore optimization on it anyways (and it's a small file). Those were the only >real< reasons I didn't.

There's a section in the Developer's Guide "Creating Indexes on Views". It shows you how to create persistent indexes on views (By default VFP doesn't let you).

Regards,