An Old Man Needs Help

[Bob Stockler]

I used to know how to do this, but brain fade at how many years
old I am (at this age I can't remember), so I need help (though
I could probably figure it out myself in a week or two).

The client is on filePro 4.8.?.

He needed a -decending- sort on Invoice Numbers (9,.0).  I added
a field (9,.0) to the file and populated it with values that are
"9999999999" - Invoice Number, which worked OK, but it turned out
that his Invoice Numbers started out in 1992 to be <= 6 digits,
then (at some point in time, for unknown reasons) became 7 digit
numbers for a while, and then reverted to being 6 digit numbers,
so he isn't getting what he wanted.

So I want to give him a decending sort on dates.  I'm thinking,
add a field to the records - Inverse_Date 10 mm/dd/yyyy - then
populate it with "12/31/9999" - Invoice_Date, and sort on it.

This is a secondary sort on Customer_Number, so I think this
should do it.  Will it ? ? ?

Bob (who doesn't need any "Have you tried it?" responses)

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