Let

use in select( 'crime' )

precede your code.

But your code is dangerous, of course. How do you ascertain that the field crimedate exists in the table? If you don't do that, the index line will cause an error.

>I am trying to catch the choice of the wrong table name. If a user picks the wrong table, I want to display a messagebox that tells them to choose another file, then on clicking OK the user is returned to the getfile() routine. However, I am getting table is already open errors and must be opened exclusively. I have tried quite a few ideas but the errors persist. There must be a way of doing this. Do you know how?
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>Here is the main bit of code that I am using to open a table.
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>pcFileName = ""
>pcFileName = Getfile('DBF')
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>Select 0 && Selects the first available work area
>Use (pcFileName) Alias crime Exclusive
>Select crime
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>Index On crimedate Tag crimedate && Thanks Sergey
>* Set order to that TAG
>Set  Order To crimedate
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