Hi Mark! I'm not agreed with you and Edward. When you open the empty DE you can't click on the Other button because this button isn't accessible. When you pickup the table in Open dialog then the appropriate DBC opens too. Because of that, when you press the Other button to pickup the another table, Fox know to which DBC it belongs. I don't think that a computer (even with loaded program) can be smarter than the people... <g> Have a happy day, Vladimir Shevchenko >Maybe I am not following both of you, but I have been able to add a table >(that is part of a DBC) to a DE without opening the database first. I >think I just clicked on the "Other" buttong and selected the table. Could >you not then go to the cursor's properties to see the DBC name? > >Or, with the way things have (not) been going lately, maybe I just dreamed >all of this :)