>Thanks!
>
>>up front: cannot peak into german help file, as I have deleted the vfp6-version it was last included in.
>>maybe going along with the terminology of vfp help file would be best (ask dfpug).
>
>Did you try this?
>

>USE <one of your table>
>MODIFY STRUCTURE
>&& go to index tab and play with the index type drop-down list
>

no need - english all around vfp on my machine (had to install german version of 6 once as a project requirement)... there were a few translated IDE's sold for 8 and 9, but I don't know who uses them.