same again without the typo:)

>Thanks Gene
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>Thats what I do at present but I am unhappy with the technique because sometimes it interferes with Grids I have on the form in ways that I have to trap for.
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>Go liRecno also usually needs a construct such as
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>if !eof('mytable')
> go liRecno in mytable
>endif
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>I would prefer a method that made no attempt to move the record at all.
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>>i don't know about another select statement, but why can't you save the record number before the calculate and then after the calculate say - GO liRecno