Glad I could help. I do miss this place, but I check in from time to time (very infrequently though).

>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
>>>