>Mark --
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>You are welcome. The reason that it didn't work with "Init" is that you were calling a UDF and that puts any SET commands in the UDF out of scope to the forms datasession (when it is set Private)....at least I think that's the explanation.
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Hi John,

I believe it maybe the firing sequence of the events. By the time the form's .Init fires, the tables are already open, and their environment established.