You're right! But I assume that he's working with only a table. And, well, I use my class with just one table which can be the result from many tables as following:

Select a.a1, b.b1, a.a2, b.b2 from a, b where a1 = b1 into cursor curFinal
Select curFinal
Copy to c:\midbf.dbf Type Fox2x
.object.Tables(1)= "c:\midbf.dbf"
** anithing else goes here

>ok. that seems to work but not sure what to do if there are multiple tables in the query.
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>and so it seems like you're saying that i dont need the ".connect" which would be used with the active X control (since we're instanciating the application itself)
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>and how do i set up the ".SelectionCriteria" (again, that is the way to do it with the active X object - not sure how with the application object).
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>thanks,
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>keith