>First of all thank you to John Adams,Barbara Paltiel,
>and Craig Berntson all for replying with the very same
>correct advice. It worked, thanks also for the advice
>on the upper case thing, I rarely shout.
>
>Now that I am almost finished one last question remains
>this will tell you for sure that I am used to Fox for
>DOS.
>
>When I print report form .... to printer it wants to
>print all 81,000 + records. Once again MS documentation
>fails because I cannot find anything in the VFP manuals
>that tells me how to print current record only.
>
>Any help would once again be appreciated and help me to finish this lengthy project.


another way to do it besides creating a cursor with an sql select is to seek the 1 record to position the record pointer and issue the report command:

report form xxxx to print next 1

this will limit the report to only the recort the pointer is on.