no, with curFinal open, I first used Browse. Looked at the data. Then to show you, I used a: copy to myText type csv fields mDate, Vs, mRec, Keepinfo, cntdups, curDups.MinVs. I then formated the data in Word and presented it here. keepInfo is still doing what is shown below.

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>>Table myTable
>>field names------Type----number of characters
>>mDate-------------D------8
>>Vs----------------C------200
>>Debit-------------N------12 with 2 decimals
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>>output from curDups
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>>minvs------mdate----------cntdups
>>conso------05/28/2013------3
>>henr-------08/28/2013------2
>>key--------09/16/2013------2
>>menu-------09/18/2013------2
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>Ok, everything is correct then according to the logic. I assume you manually typed your previous result and didn't type minVs correctly.