>>I think what Tariq is saying is that if he X2-clicks on the table, in Explorer, then it will fire off as an incidence of VFP, with the table automatically "sorted" in the desired order. i.e. no user intervention. Thus the table needs to be in the required order natively.
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>>However, he's been shown the (probably ONLY) method of achieving this, given the brains that have pondered the problem, and doesn't seem to want to accept reality.
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>I think you're right.
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>If he is just looking for a table that can be opened directly like that he may have to look at Access or something else instead of VFP (I think Access can do that but I don't use it??)

He could 'double-click' on foxpro prg file that will open table with needed index tag, and obviously it's not the only 'solution'.