>Yeah thanks for all the help on this one. I've not really used alias's per >se but rather kept track of workareas rather. But I will now. I've always envied programmers who tracked workareas for their work force or whatever was the proper expression. With SQL inventing and forgetting its temporary workareas, and Create Cursor and other stuff, tracking them by alias name was tricky enough. Keeping track of "what was open in what workarea" seems quite unfeasible to me. Besides, having seven tables open, and finding "Select 5" several dozen lines away from "Select 5 --- Use ThisDbf" was always a nightmare for me. Not in my routines (I've always used aliases), though, but had to maintain some others at times.