The code itself seems to be fine. Are you running SP1, could it be a bug corrected in SP2? Somehow I vaguely remember something about that problem, I'll search here.

>Your point is well taken, but that's not the purpose of this method. It's to check if a table can be opened at all i.e. it hasn't been so corrupted that it fails with a "not a table" error.
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>This is strictly a single-user application. However, on the off-chance the table is not corrupt, but actually is opened by someone else, it's probably better to USE...SHARED so it won't fail on a "File in use" error.
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