Thank you Mark. I will try this out. Appreciate your advise.

>You need to make sure you USE OTHERTABLE IN 0 or
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>SELECT 0
>USE OTHERTABLE
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>so your cursor does not get closed. Then if you change to SCAN...ENDSCAN, you will not have to remember to SELECT PROCESSTHIS and you don't need the SKIP either.
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>>Hi LiaM:
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>>Thank you for your response.
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>>> What is in the "Do some more stuff...." part of the code?
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>>I gues the problem might be here, since in this part I USE a few tables exclusively and zap them - which might be why I lose the cursor.
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>>>Incidentally, instead of Do While !Eof() ... EndDo, why not use Scan ... EndScan - much cleaner.
>>>
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>>I'll give this a shot.
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>>Thanks.