yep. Thanks Mark!

>Maybe you have a relation set into another table from TmpState where the BROWSE is actually required to set that relation on a real record in the related table? IIRC, this used to be a bug in VFP earlier versions. Maybe it still is. Anyway, see if this resolves your problem.

>SELE TmpState
>LOCATE
>IF NOT EOF()
>   SKIP
>ENDIF
>LOCATE
>REPORT FORM...

>
>>This works:
>>

>>   SELE TMPSTATE
>>   GO TOP
>>
>>   BROWSE
>>
>>   REPORT FORM ap_state NOCONSOLE TO PRINTER NEXT nprintno
>>

>>This does not:
>>

>>   SELE TMPSTATE && I verify this is correct
>>   GO TOP
>>
>>*   BROWSE <--If I check the alias() it is correct why should this need to be here?
>>
>>   REPORT FORM ap_state NOCONSOLE TO PRINTER NEXT nprintno
>>