>The reason I wanted to try the LOCATE was cause with the SEEK() does not work correctly. This is what I’m doing:
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>IIF(SEEK(THISFORM.r_year+result.source,'Temp','Temp'),Temp.descr," ")
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>It doesn’t find the right info, although, it does exist. I also tried setting EXACT ON and still doesn’t find it.
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>any ideas?

That's why I included the PADR() on the fyr and source fields, so the length of the expression matches the length of the field.
Make sure the index expression is fyr+source.
If you want to use the form properties, ALLTRIM() them first, e.g.

lcSearch = PADR(ALLTRIM(thisform.r_year),FSIZE("fyr","temp"))+ ;
    PADR(ALLTRIM(result.source,FSIZE("source","temp"))
IIF(SEEK(lcSearch, "temp", "temp"),temp.descr," ")