>Well, the tables in question have a whole shed-load of (sometimes compound) indexes. Is there a way of preserving their definitions so that I don't have to go into the table builder and manually and laboriously create the indexes all over from scratch? - Especially if this should happen more than once, and to several tables, as has just happened to me!

I keep a whole folder full of indexing PRGs, named by the tables they're used for. They all look very similar, about like this:

SET EXCL ON

USE? (get the table you want)

DELETE TAG ALL

INDEX ON field1 TAG etc.
INDEX ON field2 TAG etc.

where "fields" can be complex/compound code