Hi Nadya,

>Secondly, do you know, is there a way to display a thermometer here?
>If I use scan...endscan for the whole file, I can show a progress bar easily. Since here I use a scan for !keymatch(...), this technique would not work. Do you have ideas? If not, it's not critical, wait window would be enough, I think.

How aboutsomething like this:

SELECT Table1
nRecords=RECCOUNT()
nResolution = nRecords / 100 && 100 steps in progessbar
SCAN
    IF !KEYMATCH(cYourValue, nYourTag, "Table2)
        DO yourstuff
    ENDIF
    IF RECNO() % nResolution = 0
       ..DO ShowyourProgessbar WITH RECNO()/RECCOUNT
    ENDIF
ENDSCAN

Walter,