Well, that is the power of vfp, even 5 works fine for us. It's really a bureacratic company where I work now, so an upgrade is not on our short term to do list .

>>>Yes,
>>>Upgrade to VFP9 :-)
>>Well, this is no option for us at this moment.
>>
>>>In VFP6 - no, you should use cursors.
>>
>>I have made a mistake with the version, it should be vfp 5 but of course the same problem.
>>
>>I used cursors, but this is so slow... Is there a trick to speed this up?
>
>VFP5????????
>WOW!
>That is the buggiest version of VFP I used (Sergey pointed me that VFP3 was the one, but I never used it)
>So UPGRADE!
>In VFP9 only report engine enhancements worth every cent you pay for it.