>Point well taken. b/c of what you wrote, i changed the menu for the app. i created a menu that has "use in view_memolist" and another that is "use view_memolist in 0". I wrapped the timing code you sent me into the menu of "use view_memolist in 0". I select the "use in" to close it, and then select the "use" to reopen the view. i then can see how long it took to use the view while the vfp engine is running in my app. (i have to close the view first as the main program opens it).
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>When I do the procedure in the menu within my app, i get 0.961 seconds. When I do it from within vfp8.0, i get 0.15 seconds. This i think is still a large difference between the two.
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>What's nice here is in trying to figure this out I have learned a few things along the way. All i need to learn now is how to solve this :-)
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>Paul

I'm glad that you learned stuff. That's why I hang around here too. Sharing is power.

You'll probably find something because you know all the details of your code and data.

Good luck!