>Hi Vlad - your message has no "reply" button for some reason.
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>Anyway, the problem is that Delete sometimes places you at eof() already, so you can't Skip without an error. I was trying to use code such as yours, originally.

Can you give me an example? I NEVER saw a case when the DELETE (with no other clauses) moves the record pointer. And I would really want to see it if this can happen. This would be a HUGE bug. I also assume that you don't have a stored procedure/RI that plays with the rec pointer.

Vlad