Michelle,
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>You may want to save current record pointer, check with seek(), then return on the record, you was sitting. Or it won't work?
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I've just tried IndexSeek in one of my classes validate method. Works great!
Thanks for pointing me to this function, I didn't know about it...
So, I should update my contribution in Files also... I'll use this function instead of seek.

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>>>>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.
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>>>>Thanks,
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>>>>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,
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>>Michelle