>I have a weird, and persistent problem. A free table that doesn't want to close. Here is code:
>
>

>IF mwebenable	
>	thiswebfile=&mwebpath+'jobsweb.dbf'
>	thiswebfile1=&mwebpath+'applweb.dbf'
>	USE &thiswebfile1 IN 0
>	SELECT applweb
>	SET ORDER TO 1 
>	IF !USED('&thiswebfile')
>		USE &thiswebfile IN 0
>	ENDIF 
>	SELECT jobsweb
>	SET ORDER TO 1
>	SEEK mponum
>        ....
>        ....
>	SELECT applweb		
>	USE IN applweb
>	SELECT jobsweb
>	USE IN jobsweb
>ENDIF
>

>
>NO problems with 'applweb.bdf' at all, but run the prg more than once, and 'jobsweb.dbf' comes up unclosed. And I have tried all combos of Select and Use that I can think of.
>
>I can't use 'close tables all', as that will close the stuff in the DE, too, which is NOT wanted.
>
>What else can I do? ANY ideas will be greatly appreciated!

The use of & macro expansion is bug prone, it will fail if a path contains a space. I'd refactor to use named expressions e.g.

* Get used to using the m. prefix for memory variables
* so there's no chance of a memvar name conflicting with a column name in a open table
m.mWebPath = "C:\Some \Path \With \Spaces"

* You'll often want to use ADDBS( ), which will add a trailing backslash if not already present
* With that you can
USE ( ADDBS( m.mWebPath ) + "JobsWeb.dbf" ) IN 0

* This is a clean way to close a table, whether it's already open or not, and whether
* the current work area is JobsWeb or not:
USE IN SELECT( "JobsWeb" )

If that doesn't help I recommend tracing in the debugger. I suspect there's a lot more going on than the code you posted, maybe that table is being opened somewhere else.