>Greetings to all,
>
>we have a table with at least 2500 records, these records are sorted by sections and classes, when we print a class list we want to see the late enrollees at the bottom of the record, so what we have tried is to put in a space before the content of the record, the problem is that it goes at the top of the record.

"At the top of the record" - I assume you mean at the top of the list.

>1. We would like to hear some ideas from you guys
>2. Is it posibble to store an unprintable character in a table?

In your SELECT - SQL statement, just add an expression that relates to the date.

For instance:

select * from Inscriptions;
  order by iif(date >= {^2002-05-01}, 0, 1), Section, Class;
  into cursor Temp
report form Inscriptions

You should make sure the report doesn't have tables in its dataenvironment, if you want to run it against the cursor.

In general, I would not create an index just because I want a certain order on a report - this can easily be done in the SELECT - SQL statement.

If you are not familiar with SELECT - SQL statements, for a quick start, you can use the query builder (CREATE QUERY), and copy the generated SQL statement to your program code.

HTH, Hilmar.