I fiddled with this a few minutes and tried this:

SET NEAR ON
SEEK "1"

No matter what (character) data I put in the first non-empty field, it always found it. It's not foolproof because if the "1" actually exists, it will go to that. But if you played with the values a bit, you might hit on a foolproof method.

Michelle



>I have a table.
>I have a character field.
>I want to SEEK for the first NOT EMPTY record.
>Any suggestions?
>
>Thank you in advance.