>I need to open the table that stores a form's definintion to change some values. The form won't open for modi because one of the objects has been defined with an 'illegal value'; or so says the error message.
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>I have more than a few hours into building this form, and I thought if I could find my way into the table that holds the object definitions, I might be able to recover by hacking the offending value. But how do I get the table open?
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>Yes, I always, always, always make backups of forms that I am working on, ... except for this one time !! Hggh.

Have you tried USE MyForm.SCX? As you've already noted, the form definition is just a table...

If you can do that, you can usually go straight to the record reported in your error and see if anything is obviously out of whack.

Another option might be to recover your form from an .EXE into which it's been built:

A tip from Walter Meester may help: Thread #466497 Message #466711