Seems when usoft upgraded, somewhere between office 95 and 2002, they changed the way docmd.copyobject works. Now, it not only copies tables, it copies all relationships as well ! I was using it to copy tables, then I would edit the (copy) tables and eventually resave data from them back to a master table. But now, when I delete records from the copy, it deletes data from my db ! Thats because I now get the stupid relationships. That did not happen w/ the 95 version of access. Wondering if there is a way to copy a linked table without copying the relationship info ?