Hi Joe the answer is no has you pointed indexseek is only available for vfp6 or 7 and this is the only function that allow you to perform a search without moving the record pointer.
However what you can do is opening the table again and do a search on the new alias opened.

>Using vfp5...
>
>Is there a function to search a table for a certain record without
>moving the record pointer. At first I thought keymatch but now
>it appears it moves the pointer, indexseek doesn't appear to
>be available till vfp6. I know... upgrade. It's the first thing
>I will do when I'm allow to spend again. I'm not looking forward
>to having to buy vfp7 and VS separatly though. Twice the dough.