Opening a view with no data takes such a short time that I don't think it would make much difference unless you're opening 50 of them, Jill. You're better off making sure that controls you don't see at startup (like pages 2-n of a pageframe) aren't loaded until they're needed.

Barbara

>I understand, from a previous thread, that, in order to help a form load quickly, the tables accessed by the form should be opened at system start up. Does this apply to views also (I'd, oc, open them w/no data)?
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>TIA, J