Walter,

Even if you add the IN ) to your USE commands the code you psoted won't work because you must select the work area that the relation will originate form before you issue the SET RELATION command.

On a different note. This si not directed at you alone, but many people have been making comments about "not living up to the MVP standard" and it irritates me. MVP is an award for past performance and it does not carry any requirement for the future. There is no MVP standard, each year Microsoft reviews the nominees and their posts and decides if they will receive the award again. The award I got in June of this year was for what I had done in 1998 not for what I was going to do in 1999.

I have no qualms if you an Ed aren;t getting along, your both big boys. If you don't want to reply to him fine, if he thinks your talking through your hat fine for him. I don't really care. But it really irritates me when someone receives an award for their past performance and someone else is going to dismiss it out of hand because they don't like the way a current thread is going. Or maybe they don't like the fact that MVPs are human and they get frustrated and pissed off too.