>>Hi Nick,
>>
>> So were you able to try the program out? What did you find out?
>Hello Napoleon,
>
>I am looking at your formset right now, and so far nothing disappears from the dataenvironment, You have there BOOKS, AUTHORS and PARAMCAT tables, right?
>Your Find form cannot find ALLBOOKS view - it is not in DE.
>(locate all for alltrim(allbooks.accessno)== alltrim(thisformset.form2.text1.value))

I just added ALLBOOKS view to DE, now it works and stays there. BTW why do you set AutoCloseTables to .F. ?