I take it that it opened fine up until this point. Did you always load it first or did you have other things open before this one? What I'm thinking is that if you had something else running before then Bryce may have too much to cope with or if you didn't then maybe you should open something else first then open this file. None of this is base on actual knowledge but we all know how finicky Bryce can be so it's worth a try. Catlin