I owuld be really surprised if this made a difference, and if it did, it would tell me that there was a problem with the link between the table and the dbc. The table should automatically open and update the dbc when it is opened and modified.

>Hi Erik.
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>No. There is only one copy of the table and one copy of the database container. Do you think it might have something to do with not explicitly opening the database before using the table? I'm going to try to mod my code to do that, regen an EXE and see if it makes a difference.
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>Eg.,
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>OPEN DATABASE MyDataBase EXCLU
>USE MyTable EXCLU
>INDEX ON student_cd TAG student_cd ADDITIVE
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>Wish me luck ... and if it DOES make a difference, shish! I'll let you know.
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>Thanks.