Hi John

Well, as I tried to indicate in my post, I'm trying to tell the Goldmine program to show the record .. not the VFP program. The gm5s32.dll is for low level data access. I don't hae a problem using low level data-access. After finding the record, though, I need DDE to command Goldmine to show that contact - do I not?

Am I missing something here, or did you misinterpret my post?

Thx Scott
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>I don't know why you're using DDE... there is a new API available: here is some code form an actual working program using the seek function to locate the record.
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>&& If we don't have a contact2 record, add and put in accountno
>lnReturnValue = GMW_DB_SetOrder(lnCont2Handle, 'CONTACT2' )
>IF GMW_DB_Seek(lnCont2Handle ,lcAcctNo )<> 1   && EXACT MATCH NOT FOUND
>   **-- you're code here
>ENDIF
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