>>Hey Alexander - thanks - that did the trick!
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>Hi Chris,
>I do this all the time and just COUNT in the command window will count all the records in your filter set. Make sure SET TALK ON and SET STATUS BAR ON.
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>I also do subsets of the filter by
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Count() for <i>condition</i>

>HTH a little more,
>Pete

I'm wandering, is where another way besides COUNT. The filter itself would be slow, then COUNT - two slow commands to determine this number... :(