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>I have not demonstrated Matt's problem, but have
>plenty of compound indexes in VFP that (obviously)
>have a "made-up" index tag name. I have had no
>problems.
>

Christian

I have had both types of indexes, complex & simple. Believe it
or not I had the problem on the simple indexes as in this
thread. I 'had to' change the tag to the field name just
to avoid spending hours researching the problem.

Lucky me...
Tom