>PMI, but if AutoOpenTables is off and your tables/views are in the DE, what about a simple call to DE.OpenTables()? Doesn't that open all tables?

Thanks John, Brendan and Michelle. I don't know how I missed that. :-O

Do either of you know how to deal with free tables in the DE? When the above is issued the form load I get an error:

"Error instantiating cursor object. Cannot find in "