Michael,
First, check that "AutoCloseTables" is set to FALSE in the child form's dataenvironment. Second, check to be sure that you haven't opened a table or cursor in the child form without using "USE...IN 0" so that the combo's rowsource table is closed and a new table opened in its select area.

HTH
Barbara

>Hi Marcia,
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>Yes, I have a combobox on the parent form and that seems to be were the problem lies. When I close the child form, my rowsource for my combo is going away. How can I keep the child form from closing the underlying tables of my parent form's objects?