>Oddly, if you
>

Select("myTable")

>it does in fact change the work area, BUT, if you use as a function to return the workarea (like the Help describes):
>

>  nWorkArea = Select("myTable")
>
>or
>
>  ? Select("myTable")

>
>it returns the workarea of MyTable, but does not change the workarea
>
>That seems very bizarre, and since using it to change work areas is not documented, I'll stick with the other method.

My best guess on this is that if you type it the first way, it treats the parentheses as part of a name expression.