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>>Thank you very much! I 'll try it right away and am sure this way of doing it will save me a lot of time. I didn't know the report would not look for the table mentioned in the DE when the alias is already there...
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>I suspect you may have to set the DataEnvironment's AutoOpen property to .F. in order for this trick to work.
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>Updated: and make sure the report doesn't use a private datasession, of course.

Thank you very much for your remarks, I'll keep them in mind! (I wanted to try this system out immediatelly, but something got in between, so I still have to try it...)

Best regards,