This is a bit of a guess, Sherry, but I believe that when you use ODBC to connect to the Fox tables from Access that the appropriate indexes will be used. I base this on my experience that certain index tags on Fox DBFs (such as on DELETED()) can, in some versions, bomb Access; er go, my assumption that the indexes are being used.<br><br>PS: I assume you mean structural (CDX) indexes, not stand-alone.