Geoff,

If you read the docs on "SET TALK", "SET DELETED" and many other set commands you will see that many are scoped to the data session. So if you form has a private data session, that form will have all the defaults for SET TALK, etc.

There are many ways to solve this. I base all my forms off my base form, which includes a section in form load to make all the settings. This also means that AutoOpen is .F. and I open my tables manually. So the table opens occur after the Form Load. This is so Set Deleted, Set Exclusive, etc. are set properly before opening tables.

SS