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>Yes, I remember the manuals stating something to this effect. But what I suspect that might actually happen, is that VFP parses the condition against the indices, and checking for an exact match. If this happens, then an index on NOT DELETED() might exactly match the implicit condition on NOT DELETED().
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>This is just a suspition, of course, and it might be totally off track.

Well I'd guess that you're totally off track < s>. Why would it mention the TAG defined with a NOT if it didn't mean it?