No Greg, I get the error even if I run with [do form noread].

>Ashish,
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>Do you happen to have a read events going in the background. I've had peculiar behavior before between report and form designer when I have forgoten to issue a clear events.
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>Greg
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>>Hmmm that is definitely weird I can repeat it in VFP8SP1 on my computer everytime. I have XP Pro as the OS, maybe that has something to do with it. Anyone else can repeat the problem?
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>>>I repeated all your steps under VFP8SP1 a few times and didn't get any errors.
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>>>>1. Create a report, any report. Even one which is empty will suffice.
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>>>>2. Create a Modal Form, with a button. In the button click event, issue a Modify Report for the report you created in Step 1.
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>>>>3. When the report comes up, click the report toolbar and add some text.
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>>>>4. Now click on the calling form (outside the rerport preview window area)
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>>>>5. The report will prompt you if you want to save changes. If you press yes, you will get a Report File is Invalid error message. All the time. VFP 7 & 8
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>>>>7. If you open the report frx file as a table, you'll notice a record where the Expr column is empty, and the timestamp and the objcode columns having a value of zero. If you delete this record AND pack the frx table, the report is once again usable. OR if add text to the Expr column it opens again.
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>>>>Ideas/Opinions?