>Just another idea: create a temprorary DBC, add your table to it, do all modifications, then free this table.
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In order to add mytable to a new temporary DBC I have to FREE TABLE mytable. Doing this shortens the field names which messes up the tags.

I can't ADD TABLE mytable to the temp DBC without FREEing it first, because VFP tells me that this table already exists in another DBC.

Thanks