>Mainly, I wanted to point out that my "quick-and-dirty" solution (with recno()) would fail circumstances in addition to the deleted records you mentioned.
>Declaring your own variable is, indeed, the safest way to go, but it may not be necessary if you process a cursor (query result) - in which case, using recno() saves 3 lines of code.
>The same considerations apply to using reccount() ("processing record 100 of 5000"): the results of this function are only reliable in a newly-created cursor (non-filtered).

Ok, I see! Just didn't understand, what you wanted to point out. Thanks for making that clear! Now Steve will know about all the pitfalls as well :)

Armin