>>before report all table is there.... and also after report...
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>which is why I suspect that the expression is not accessing the table, but a different one. Maybe a typo in the alias name in an IIF condition or as the second part of an AND clause.

huumm.... And why previewing the report.. It runs fine?? And no open dialog comesup? And Why if I'm under debug inside VFP everything goes fine (even outputing to html) ??
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>> But, Never ask for OPEN tables..
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>But it does prompt for a table when you preview, doesn't it? So, if you pick a table in the dialog, do you get any other error?

No error... and no result printed also??