Jim,

Ok, one more time. I think I understand what it's doing now. My QUOTE_NO is a character field so I don't need to TRANSFORM it. My Density and Thickness fields are numeric so I need to do them. I've entered the following command:

index on padl(quote_no,20)+padl(transform(density),20)+padl(transform(thickness),20) tag cost

and get an error "too few arguments".

John