>Bob,
>
>You are right, I didn't think of EXCL because I don't remember the last time I tried to open a table EXCL. I don't pack tables, I recycle deleted records.
>
>As for USED() if you read the help carefully you will see that is checks for an Alias not a table.
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>

>USE MyTable ALIAS Table1
>? USED("MyTable") && Returns .F. as there is no alias named MyTable
>

Thanks Jim..