Ok, I see. I don't know how to do that. Does ON ERROR catch it? I know there's utilities out there that will fix tables/DBCs, but I don't know any by name.

Michelle

>You are correct, however the problem I am having is that the DBC got corrupted so I can't USE mytable EXCl and rename the fields to shorter fields names or remove the tags.
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>However, I can FREE the table. But when I USE mytable I get the error. I'm looking for a way to supress this error dialog.
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>Thanks