Because I have never been to VFP school and that is how it was done when I learned coding a couple of centuries ago. :-)
Thank you for the instruction.

>Why do you need a loop?
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>REPLACE ALL nRank WITH RECNO()
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>>I have a table and had to add a field to it to hold a record number so the records position would appear in a list box in a report to be developed.
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>>I named the field 'rank' and added a bit of code to a prg to loop through the table replacing rank with recno() to fill the field for display.
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>>Everytime I run the code an error "variable 'rank' is not found." is presented. When I check the table, the field I added is gone.
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>>I restarted my computer and added the rank field to the table again and when the code is run, the same trouble occurs and the field is gone from the table.
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>>How can I correct this?