David ---

Do you have anything in the Activate of the first page -or- bound controls (via ControlSource) -or- do you have SELECT code in the Command button -or- do you have a DataEnvironment in this form with no tables -or- do you have DataSession for this form set to Private?


>> Something somewhere has to be opening the correspondence table or else it wouldn't show
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>display status shows that each table is opened to a select area when i run the executible:
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> 1 - correspondence
> 2 - assignments
> 3 - status
> 4 - rptlist
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>so it must be trying to use 1 initially. if i set it to use 2 (assignments) in the command window, you can see the status bar change to 'Admin!Assignments' but as soon as i click one of the command buttons (like 'NEXT' for next record) it changes the select area. when i click on page2 of the form it works as it should.