Larry,
Yes, I have the status bar turned on when running queries, or even indexing... just gives the user something else to watch so they won't think it's 'locked up'. I don't know what could have changed to start causing this - did you recently switch VFP versions? AFAIK, with SET TALK ON and SET STATUS BAR OFF, you would always get the "20 records selected in 0.02 seconds" message printed on the active window.
Of course, you could do like everyone else in the world and blame it on Y2K :)

Mark

>No, I haven't tried any of those things yet... but I will... what I can't understand is what did I change to cause this? The message never appeared before and I've been using SET TALK ON to display query progress for quite some time.
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>Do you see this message as well? or are you using the STATUS BAR ON / OFF approach yourself?
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>Thanks
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>>Hi Larry,
>>Have you tried SET STATUS BAR ON, so that the message goes there instead? (SET STATUS BAR OFF afterwards).
>>Or you could ACTIVATE SCREEN just before the SELECT so that it doesn't print to your form. I think you can even define a window, without activating it, and SET TALK TO that window - it should never be seen.
>>Wow, I'm running out of ideas, here :)
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>>Mark
>>
>>>Hi all...
>>>
>>>I set talk on so I can see a SQL statement's progress, but I don't want the message showing how many records were selected.
>>>
>>>I immediately set talk off after the SQL statement, but still get the message. This didn't used to happen, but I'm not sure what's changed...
>>>
>>>TIA