Terry, Thanks. I will study this. To make sure I understand.
Without having looped through a file,
Let,'s say I am at record no. 300, in a table with 1000 records.
Field 1 is call myfield.

There is no function that will return the value for myfield
but for record 200 without first doing a
go 200, getting the myfield value,
and then returning to record 300?

Because it would seem that doing a "go 200" would be slow compared to some kind
of native vfp command that knew how to return the value for myField.record = 200
Thanks very much
Steve