>>Is there a way to trap the error "Cannot access the selected table" ?
>>I think I know the pint in code where it occurs, even closed what I thought was the offending open table, but it still persists.
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>Do you use comboboxes bound to cursors and does the error occur on form closing?
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>If this is the case you need to set the rowsource empty before the tables are closed.
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>Agnes

I got it to work finally, I added thisform.mylistbox1.RowSource="" in the keypress ection of the form after exhausting all other places, especially textbox where the sql formed the rowsource.