Andrus,

I've tried both. When I first used VFP 3 I loaded tables up programmatically (before I knew who Drew Speedie was and why he recommended it). I've been doing it in the DE for a few months and I miss three things from my old method: Control, control, and control.

Basically, you can put a property on the form called cFilesToOPen. You then add these in comma-delimited list at design time. Your form's load can then step through, opening each one, and give the user a very precise message if one of them doesn't open.

FWIW, I haven't a clue if it's faster or slower.

>I started to move to oppsite direction. I have some forms which require 20 free tables and some views opened by code. I re-coded those by adding them manually (!) to form DE.
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>Currently those two forms: document list and document
>selected from list to edit seems to work.
>Can you tell me, why using code is better? It decreases form load speed a bit!