You can still leave the tables in the Data Environment and set the AutoOpenTables property to .f. When the report runs, it doesn't open the tables but when you are in the designer you can still do drag and drop.
Cathy
>This negates the benefits of using the data environment of the report. I had liked how you could drag the fields from the dataenvironment onto the report.
Cathy Pountney, Microsoft Visual FoxPro MVP Memorial Business Systems, Inc. (www.mbs-intl.com)