>>>Steve, why are you indexing "on the fly"? Index your table, then in the data environment set the index tag to that index.
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>>>About your error message: The Data Environment USEs the table, so it can't be opened exclusively as is necessary to re-index. Your USEing again gives the error.
>>>
>>>Leave a message about what you're trying to accomplish. There's probably an easier way.
>>>
>>>HTH
>>>Barbara
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>>Thanks for the reply. All I really want to do is to index the records in the listbox. You mentioned that I should set the index tag in Data Environment, how/where do I do that. I've tried several different ways from within Data Environment, but I'm just not seeing the results.
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>>Thanks again
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>>Steve
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>Open your Data Environment, and click on the table used by the listbox. Then go to the Property sheet and click on the Data tab. Index is one of the choices, and you will see all of the indexes the DBC has listed for that table.
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>Barbara

Thanks a bunch, It works perfectly, and it was almost too easy.

Thaks again!

Steve