Terry thanks for your help.

I have now got this working using a slightly different method.

I have a main program which when started will open all my tables that I need and using the parameter that has been passed, cArtikey will find the record in articles table and the record in fabsum table. When my form starts up I pass the parameter i.e.

Do neilform with cArtikey.

It works great!!! Is this ok to do it this way you think?