Sergey:

You are absolutely right!!

The issue is not that the count would be wrong because I would put something in the code to capture something about the bottom record before starting the DO loop.

The issue is that the "skip -1" must be just before ENDDO. I did not understand that until now.

Now when I am scanning down I do not necessarily have my skip code just before the ENDDO and it always works.

Anyay, Sergey I can live with this now that I understand it. It seems a little odd that it works this way but now that I understand it, I can make it work.

Thanks for clarifying this for me.

Mike Smith