Work areas already exist so you cannot open them. You can select one of them or open a table in one of them.

>Restarted VFP9 and voila both Select Command and ALias() are visible agqin. Thanks.
>So I must understand you can open a Workarea and not open a table in that Workarea, a situation which is strange, except for Workarea(1)
>I shall have to recode this part in the class.
>Thanks,
>Koen