>Terry thanks for your help.
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>I have now got this working using a slightly different method.
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>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.
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>Do neilform with cArtikey.
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>It works great!!! Is this ok to do it this way you think?

Neil

Whatever gets you through the night. If this is a one-off called form, as you suggest, where you get data from both tables and splash them onto a form, why not? (Although I'd probably do that by means of a view linking the two tables). I had in mind a case where you could select succesive Fabsum records (say using a next, prev button etc. and/or with the Fabsum recs in a grid) during the life of the form and it wouls auto. get the Articles related data. The way you outlined DID seem a trifle, shall we say... clumsy and kludgy, and you DID say you were having problems showung the correct look-up data.

Terry