>same again without the typo:)
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>>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

How about if you do a USE ... AGAIN and do the calculation on the new alias? That way, you don't ever move the record source on the original.