It couldn't help because SELECT() function doesn't change work area.

>Interesting ... it worked. I had previously tried:

lnOldSelect = select(0)
>use (tcReportName + '.frx') in 0
>...
>...
>use
>select (lnOldSelect)
>return

but it didn't help. Somehow the explicit "Select 0" was required.
>Thanks very much Sergey
>
>Bob
>