>>>Strange... you have nothing in the join or filter pages... is the View Parameters list empty too?
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>>>BOb
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>>Yes, the view parameters are totally blank... nothing in the join...nothing in the filter... have deleted everything and recreated it... too weird...
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>>Ideas?
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>When you are in the view designer, put down the QUERY menu, and select View Paramaters... make sure that is empty.
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>Open the database exclusive...
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>Do the following commands in the command window
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>open data YOURDATABASE excl
>validate database recover
>compile database YOURDATABASE
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>Let me know if this helps.
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>BOb

No - I believe I may have a weird installation mixture of 4.0a over the previous version(s) that may be causing the problem. I am going to completely blow everything away and reinstall.

Thanks for the suggestions!
Roy