> You cannot rely your application flow on the internal opening of tables. If you want to work with particular work area, then you should issue explicitly:
Select MyTable

yes, i understand but what i cannot figure out is why this intro form automatically opens the 'Admin!Correspondence' table when i can't find an explicit open anywhere. somewhere, when VFP starts, it must be selecting work area 1 by default. when i click on page2 it accesses 'Admin!Assignments' as it should but when i go back to page one it reverts back to 'Admin!Correspondence'. i can't see where there is any code in any init or click event that is causing this to happen.