>There is nothing stoping you from opening the table with USE in the Init() of >the second form. However, if some fields should be bounded to this table, you >will have to bound them programmaticaly in the Init() of your form.

When you have a lot of cuntrols in complex structures, like containers and pageframes, it is like a pain. Much more simple way is create temporary cursor in form.load method by 'CREATE CURSOR' command. By this way alias will exist with fields required to initialize controls without errors. Than in Init you may close temporary cursor and open table. When you have a grid based on this table, be sure to assign empty string to grid's RecordSource before close of temporary cursor to do not damage it's columns.