John, I did what you suggested and it works! Thank you. Now, if you have the time, could/would you explain why? (Oh and it's clean-up code) S

>Hi Ed ---
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>It's an old SPR file which means that all of the controls are actually variants of @..GET and @..SAY....I think that if she opens the tables in the setup snippet and closes them in the post-READ snippet (dang - can't remember the name) of the main SPR and removes all open/close table commands from the child SPR files everything should be OK. I think. Boggles the mind, eh?
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>>If you would be in VFP completely then the reason and workaround are known. You should unlink combo from cursor before rebuilding it. However, I don't know by sure how to apply it to your mixed environment.
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