>>>I can't seem to get started with the program code to loop through (top to bottom) the records in a table. Can someone help?
>>
>>SCAN
>>...
>>ENDSCAN
>>are one option; another is
>>DO WHILE .NOT. EOF()
>>
>>ENDDO
>>
>>SCAN is preferred since it can be rushmore optimized and auto-skips to the next record.
>
>There is also the old For loop...
>GO TOP
>FOR i = 1 to RECCOUNT()
>...
>SKIP 1
>ENDFOR
>
>For is supposed to be faster than While but slower than Scan, but each one of these types of loops is most appropriate for different situations...

Well put! There are times when I actually use a Do While over a SCAN...