>If you open the child table again in a separate work area with USE AGAIN, and do your ad-hoc seeks in this work area, you won't have the problems you've been describing.
It will work but the purpose will not be achieved because you are pointing different table alias and might return wrong recno especially if the table is BUFFERED.
JESS S. BANAGA
Project Leader - SDD division
...shifting from VFP to C#.Net
CHARISMA simply means: "Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you."
