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>>>That's a good point. I guess my main worry is how I will coordinate the grid class with the usersettings table across multiple apps. I'm not using a framework and there needs to be a standard way to create and maintain this new table.
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>>Create the table with an 'application' field and place it in a common location as a free table.
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>Yes but one app may have cuserid, another usernum... userid... username... etc...

I would standardize the user reference within the new table and use a COM object to handle the interaction between the individual applications and the table. Each object could call a particular retrieve method depending on how the data is to be returned.

You could also modify all the apps to use a standard user reference, however, depending on how extensively the settings are used this could be a lot of work.