Hi John,

Well, sadly, I have to ZAP the table each time that I update it from a spreadsheet which is created by our AS400 with the latest orders. This is why it has to be an exclusive open.

>Cecil, I was going to propose try...catch again until I saw the VFP6 comment...

>Just for interest, why do you need exclusive access? If there is a chance the target table is in use by others, could you bring the excel spreadsheet into a temporary repository and do a SCAN...INSERT...ENDSCAN?