As far as I can tell, you are right. IndexSeek() only appears to work on the table itself, and not on the buffer, so until you do a TableUpdate(), it doesn't work.

Alan

>>We'll have to see what the brighter lights have to say about this...
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>>I suggested the SELECT because the Help doesn't explicitly stat that a CREATEd table stays SELECTed (last one anyway). It only says that it can be referenced by its alias.
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>>good luck.
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>Well thanks for the effort. I'd like somebody to try running my sample code to see if they get the same results. Maybe I have some weirdness in my install or resource file, or....something. BTW, I'm running VFP7 SP1 under Win2000 Server.