Michelle,

You may want to save current record pointer, check with seek(), then return on the record, you was sitting. Or it won't work?

HTH

>>>This seems line an elementary question, but it's got me a bit puzzled. When the user is entering a new record, how do you check to be sure a field doesn't have a duplicate value without moving the record pointer? This also would have to take into account buffering. It seems as though I've done this before, but my head is in a bit of a muddle today and it's not coming to me.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Michelle
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>>Hi Michelle.
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>>The other's suggestions will certainly work, but you might also want to consider VFP 6's INDEXSEEK function. This will let you seek a value in the same work area without moving the record pointer.
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>Yeah, I believe someone mentioned that. I didn't know it was for VFP 6, though. I guess that won't work.
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>Thanks,
>
>Michelle