>Can anyone give me the final trick to show the progression of an INDEX command WITHOUT getting the function name of the Progression routine written to the index file.

I recently submitted this question to FoxPro Advisor, and it was answered in the August 1999 issue by Christof Lange. Basically you still have to d a function call, but he included about a page of code to run to remove the function from the CDX. The code was included on the Resource CD for those who subscribe to that.