Hi John,

>I never said it was better or faster...did I??? I don't think I implied it.

You said: "Other things take a hit as well. This is why it is a good practice to have a deleted tag..."

I'm not sure how you understand this, or who you meant this. But I'd see this as saying "it's a good thing".

>and how this setting can effect the results of a popular VFP function Sys(3054).

But the question was not how this correlates to the output of SYS(3054), but what effect an index on DELETED() has.

>Thank you for giving meeting my expectations...

As someone whose native language is not English, would you mind to explain this sentence to me? Thanks.

Christof