Another solution may be to use Suprtool to serially extract the data from the detail set. You would have to sort the extract file by some value in the file that represents the chronological sequence of the data. If your entries don't have any date/time stamp in the set you may consider modifying your source and data base structure (probably not the optimum solution).... You can't assume the chronological order of the entries is maintained if entries have been getting deleted from the set. Not much help to you here, but I think this is an issue that should have been resolved before the data base was originally designed. Brian. * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *