>Thank you...
>It was the deleted setting... Once I changed it to OFF, it flew...
>However, this table is read-only from the user for lookup and can NEVER have any records deleted from it.... Why should this make any difference???
If you have SET DELETED ON, then VFP tries first to find DELETED() tag, and if it does not found it, generates it on fly.
Edward Pikman
Independent Consultant