Thanks to all who responded to my previous post(mgagnon, jimstarr, foxdevil, et al). The cursor is open & selected. The fieldname does not include the tablename(tablename.fieldname) in the report. I have deleted the data environment of the report since the cursor is created at runtime. The cursor is not empty either. The Open Table dialog box still appears once the report form command is encountered. I might be missing something basic here. I'll keep on looking. Any ideas, anyone can throw, is very much welcome. Thanks a lot!