Hi Bill,

If SET DELETE ON doesn't work then you're doing something incorrectly. Keep in mind that SET DELETE is scoped to a datasession.

>thanks for responding so quickly.
>I tried both your suggestions and unfortunately they do not work.
>I read some time ago that Seek() ignores Deleted(). The current vfp 9.1 Help does not say that, but it appears that is the case.
>My work-around is pretty ugly. If a solution cannot be found I'll add instructions in the Help Topic for that form to tell users to ReIndex and Pack that Table after they delete any records. I hate to get users involved in using the Pack command.
>Bill