>That did help make the update faster, but sometimes the query thermometer still displays on the tableupdate. Is there anything else I can do?
>Being one of the update fields is a memo could that effect the performance?
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>Thanks

I found that even if you TABLEUPDATE( 1 or 2, ... ), FoxPro needs to send an "update" for each record.
Some if I need to change a lot of records, I access the FoxPro table directly.