>As is I have a Grid using a filter so rec count is no good. I was thinking about processing recs displayed in the Grid only. For the time being I have an alternate method but row count would be a challenge (to do easily). Yeah I know I could seek() through & count but who wants to work? (s)
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Tom,

Count is rushmore optimizable ...
also if u'd use other ways to filter the records to the report
<s> then _tally would probably be good too

Arnon