>Chas,
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>Christof Lange published a way to do this in Fox Advisor a few months back.
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>To paraphrase: No, there are no hooks. Therefore, you have to put a FOR clause into your index, such as "INDEX ON Myfield TAG myTag FOR MyUpdateRoutine()" the idea being that MyUpdateRoutine is updating some thermometer or something. Christof showed us how to then open the CDX file and remove the FOR clause, which is in the way after the indexing is done.
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Realize that updating a progress bar by invoking a UDF or method will also slow down the indxing operation.

>>Are there any hidden hooks that can be checked to increment the bar?