>This seems silly to me. How often is the development path the same as the run-time path? As long as it doesn't complain that the hard-coded directory doesn't exist, I should be ok.

The problem comes when your project is hard-coded internally as C:\MyApp and you try to run it on the network on F:\NetApp. The EXE which you placed on F:\NetApp will STILL look at C:\MyApp first.

>>Maybe I'm getting things confused, but I don't think I need a datasession. I don't want form two to have a different record pointer than form one. Form two is just like "zooming in" to see more detail on something that is general on the main form.
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>Thanks,

I suggested that keyword to search, because several of the discussions were on handling just the type of scenario you're looking for - how to handle opening and closing tables.