>>>>Hi Cetin,
>>>>
>>>>I actually do not use SET FILTER a lot anymore. Used in an older class mostly which I am now making some small performance changes to.
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>>>>When I did use SET FILTER, it was to basically skip some records. In the one case, the grid would show all the contacts for a company and then the user had a checkbox where they could "hide inactive contacts" (which was a flag field). When they checked the checkbox, the code would set the filter to:
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>>>>SET FILTER TO Inactive = .F.
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>>>I prefer Set Filter to !inactive
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>>.NOT.INACTIVE, if normality is what you want.
>
>Actually, I would prefer to call the field Active..

Ah! Too late the hero (awesome movie). (meant for me not you, I just replied to your first post without reading this one)