>>You should be using ONLY alias names for the work areas. Assume an alias of MyView for your view, the table update would be,
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>>TableUpdate(0,.F.,"MyView")
>
>So a Cursor Alias
IS a workarea
The cursor's existance is within a workarea; you really don't care which one it is, and the cursor's alias is a complete and unambiguous identifier for it regardless of which numeric area is selected.