Thanks Jim. I really appreciate all the help you and others have offered on this list. I've never encountered a group of people so willing to help. Maybe someday I'll be able to help someone else. (maybe that's a stretch):)

BTW, While looking for a VFP book, I came across "Using Visial FpxPro 6 - Special Edition" and noticed "Jim Booth" as one of the authors. I assumed it was you, so I bought the book. Have you written others?



>Alan,
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>If you are using an index order on the tabel this would be easy;
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>

>SELECT TheTable
>SET ORDER TO Whatever DESCENDING
>LOCATE FOR YourCriteria REST
>SET ORDER TO Whatever ASCENDING
>

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>If needed you could create an index for the order you want these records in so you can take advantage of the descending/ascending features of the index order.