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>Here's excerpt from VFP 7 help:
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>"Be careful when using, in join conditions, functions such as DELETED( ), EOF( ), FOUND( ), RECCOUNT( ), and RECNO( ), which support an optional alias or work area. Including an alias or work area in these functions might yield unexpected results. SELECT doesn't use your work areas; it performs the equivalent of USE ... AGAIN. Single-table queries that use these functions without an optional alias or work area will return proper results. However, multiple-table queries that use these functions — even without an optional alias or work area — might return unexpected results. "

I have bolded (emboldened?) some text in your extract above. I wonder how it manages to achieve "proper results" in any case given what else it says????

FORGET IT - just noticed WITHOUT. Must learn to read more carefully.