>>>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... :(

Hi Nadya,

Sure, SELECT fieldname, cnt(*), etc.

but then, COUNT takes less time to type. Unless of course, you can type perfectly AND fast. Me, I can't do either... 8-\