You're welcome. I hope you're not caclulating Next Unique ID by getting MAX of the existing ID column and adding one. It would be not a good idea in the multi-user environment because it requires table lock.

>Sergey,
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>Thank you. Calculate is exactly what I was looking for. I am
>trying to determine the Next Unique ID and this allows me to bypass creating a cursor and placing the resulting cursor value into a variable. This is in VFP6 and the table is a free table.
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>If you have any suggestions about a better way to get this value I would appreciate it.
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