Nancy

Thank you - I did catch the pre-snipped version of your message and I don't mind "Chapettes" contributing at all! :-) As for having the foil off the CPU - not sure I understand that.

Yes I'm working through suggestions and my ideas.

Terry

>Terry-
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>>Thanks for the input, guys. I'm just formulating it in my head. Yes, there are indeed 3 tables with a ZONE field: ALLZONES, RZSTOP and the cursor I'm scanning, to wit:
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>*snipped*
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>>So I had decided to prefix the field but not sure how to do it. I've used a named expression to get the cursor so how can I use this in the expression:
>> lcSeekKey = thisform.cRoute + thisform.cGen + thisform.cDirectn ;
>> + "1 " + STR( lcSetZoneCrs.ZONE, 4)
>>gives an error. How?
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str(&lcSetZoneCrs.Zone,4)

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>p.s. Better double check that you're scanning what you think you're scanning.