>Hi Viv,
>
>It didn't work. Because I have the autoopentables set to .t., it goes on to try to open a table that, say is missing, and then errors. And autoopentables is read only at run time, so I can't change the value. Any other ideas?

IIRC, if you return .F. from BeforeOpenTables() then there will be no attempt to open.....