True - I wasn't clear about that. However it seems very peculiar for VFP to force the entry in the non-optimizable format in order to obtain the correct answer.

Barbara

>Barbara,
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>The field has to be on the left to be rushmore optimizeable.
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>>And this is directly opposite to the thread from a week or two ago that said the field MUST be on the left to work reliably. Very strange.