Approaches should always be questioned. However, discussing the merits of performing surgery with a Scalpel or a butter knife is fairly moot. What Ed is preaching here, a waste of bandwidth is putting it nicely.....

>>>>One of the recurring justifications for using a private DS is opening the same form twice. My system never does that.
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>>You could have two different forms using the same table however......
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>>And...never is a very long time..... Perhaps a future requirement will require the same form open 2x....
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>Hey, welcome back! :-)
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>I'm actually using a private DS with all my forms. I've been questioning that approach so this discussion is very valuable.
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>Peter