I know the feeling. :)
That's why I prefer to use a query to acomplish such task if possible.

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>>You'll have to count reords using COUNT command or SELECT statement (maybe in UDF).
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>>>I've been using a class I think I got here called GridFooter which I think was developed by Dorin Vasilescu. I only recently noticed that if I use this string:
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>>>transform(reccount(thisform.icmainalias)) + ' records'
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>>>as the gridfooter's cTotalLabelExpression, deleted records get counted (of course).
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>>>What expression can I put in there to not count the deleted records?