>>Right - but when he runs the ISEXCLUSIVE( ) function it comes back with a .F.
Because of Naomi's point perhaps: USE bookings IN 0 EXCL opens it in the lowest available work area, not necessarily the currently selected work area. So ISEXCLUSIVE 'bookings') may be .T. while ISEXCLUSIVE() is not.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1