Barbara,

So have you tried setting TALK the same as with the .prg? TALK sure has been obliquely implicated in lots of strange things in the past.

Good luck,

JimN

>Mark,
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>I ran both Status displays to text files, and the only items different were that the form had more tables open, the date setting was different (no date fields in the SELECT statement) and TALK was on for the PRG. I can't see that any of these would have an effect.
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>Barbara
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>>I have had to resort to this more than once and it has helped me. Usually it is a private DS environment setting. What I do is DISPLAY/LIST STATUS under the conditions where it works and again under the conditions where it fails. I then compare all the settings.
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>>A better way would probably be to create a 2-D array in the form and populate with the environment variable and current setting [get all the variables from the SET DATASESSION list in the VFP Help]. Create another array with the settings in your default data session [DS #1]. Then compare the 2 arrays in the debugger.