>Respectfully disagree.
>Even with a return .f., it goes onto try to Opentables where it errors, because it can't find said table, and then errors again in Closetables, because the tables are already closed. Looks like I'll have to let the error trapping do its thing, although I hate doing that! But this is a rare occurrence, so in context, I can live with it. Thanks anyway.

If .AutoOpenTables is false then you would need to explicitly call OpenTables(). My code would only do that if BeforeOpenTables() returned .T.

Can you post your code ?