Josh,
Thanks for the reply. What I was trying to do was get the last entry for a particular customer. Creating the index on ACCT DESC in Fox2.5 did this but in VFP if gets the FIRST entry for the Customer even though ACCT are listed in descending order in the table. It seems to me that to constuct the index in this manner must mean extra work on VFP's part so there must be some sort of reason for it - which I can't figure out.