It depends on what you want to do with selected records.

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>Thanks for the links.. I am looking them over.
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>I wonder if you might help me with my problem at hand.
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>I have 2 differnt tables, each have differnt field names but there is one common field between the two. This would be vnd_id
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>What I need to do is take a slection of the fields from each table where the vnd_id is the same.
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>I have came up with this lol ....
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>CLOSE ALL
>CLEAR ALL
>CANCEL all
>CLOSE DATABASES
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>USE i:\ronnie\povnda1.dbf IN 1 EXCLUSIVE
>USE i:\ronnie\povnst1.dbf IN 2 exclusive
>USE i:\ronnie\orcfocus.dbf IN 3 EXCLUSIVE
>SELECT 2
>SET ORDER TO VND_ID && VND_ID
>SELECT 1
>SET RELATION TO vnd_id INTO 2
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>If I browse 1 and 2 then If i click the vnd_id I'm able to see it move around....
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>I have spent hours just learning the syntax I just need a little help as to how to accomplish this.
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>Thank you again,
>Ronnie