>>What about this:
>>

>>SET EXACT OFF
>>seek left(globalnew.accountno,6) IN clients ORDER accountno
>>if found([clients])
>>   WAIT WINDOW "A"
>>endif
>>SELECT clients
>>BROWSE last
>>WAIT WINDOW "B"
>>

>
>It now works thanks

Better to use SEEK as a function, then you don't need extra found() code.