Delbert,
First, are you using and alias with your temp file? If you set your alias to the same thing each time, then the Report Designer will be happy. I write all my report cursors to 'RPTDATA', so it's always the same.

Second, you can take the table OUT of your report data environment, as long as you SELECT the table immediately before calling the report.

HTH
Barbara

>I am new to Visual Foxpro 5.0, I know my way around Foxpro for DOS but have decided to FORCE myself to learn and use VFP.
>I keep having the same problem with report writer.
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>I usualy send the data to a temp file then print it. My problem is after I set up my report using the temp filename the next time I run it and the file name is different because they are generated by using the sys(3) function I get an error that the alias (whatever the original temp file was named) is not found and would I like to locate it. I can locate the new filename and it runs ok but its a pain and I am sure the users on our company lan are not going to like this at all!
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>I must be doing something wrong but I do not know what is it
>Thanks for any help anyone can pass along.