>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,
Walter,

The idea was to avoid scan the whole table :) The scan of table containing 4mln. records may take a long time :) I better give up the idea of timer.

You're right about deleted problem, I didn't realize, that deleted() won't help me here. This method in my case would be a little inaccurate from purilist point, but I think, it still can be used, because number of deleted records is low.