>Naomi,
>I am running the form from within the prg but at the very beginning. No tables are open before the form is loaded. All tables are opened from menu selections in the form.
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Then this program is irrelevant. How do you open your tables in the form? Are you using some object defined prior to that? If yes, then this object is in default DS, not in the form's private DS. Also do you have AutoCloseTables property set to .t. for form's DE?

BTW, all my forms are classes and they don't have this property, but the tables are closed anyway for forms with private DS.