>>>I am now getting a different window control when I click
>>>View/Tab Order. It instructs me to "Shift-click to select tab order"
>>>I wasn't getting this, b4 I was getting the row ro column option.
>>>I wonder what I did?
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>>Changed the setting in Tools/Options/Forms?
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>Yes, after rechecking that, you were right,Can I ask another?
>This form I created seems to be linked to a single dbf. When I examine the field properties, they indicated a 'somefile.price or somefile.lastname'
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>I need to use this form with other files that have the SAME exact structure. Will this work?

Using the same alias on forms for many same-structured tables works fine in general. It depends on how you open your tables, I guess, though...