>>I never used SEEK command so I've no idea what kind of quirks it has. IMO, there's no reason to use it at all.
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>Hi Sergey: what do you recommend that I use instaed of SEEK. Thank you for your advice. It is appreciated.

There's SEEK commnad and SEEK() function in VFP. They have different syntax. I recomend that you always use SEEK() function.