>Barbara, thanks for your help with the business of adding a DE to a report on the fly to access field list functions. I am trying to work out now how to do this programatically - got some help here from the KB - nothing is that easy in life is it... it seems a pity that FOx does auto load the current alias for you.
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I'm not sure what you mean by "it seems a pity that Fox does auot load the current alias for you". You can choose whether or not you want VFP to auto open tables or not.