>>Hi Fred,
>>
>>>The SEEK command requires that the table you want to do the seek in is the the current workarea and that the proper index tag is set beforehand..
>>
>>It is not true.
>>
>>You can:
>>
>>SEEK exprToFound ORDER TAG indexTag IN workarea
>>
>>SEEK is faster and you can reverse the order of search on index.
>>
>>Fabio
>
>New syntax I was unfamiliar with. Thanks for pointing it out.

Hate to tell you this, but it's been like that since VFP6 [at least]. I have to admit, I didn't know either until Fabio's note made me look it up.

Alan