Dave, it must be just you. You're magic or something. I did try that before, but it did not work so I took it back out in an effort to try to keep things as simple as possible. Perhaps I had a typo or something, but it was throwing the same error, so I'm just not sure. I wish UNDO would persist across file closing, etc. and I could just back up and see what the difference was between then and now. I guess I should have gone back and tried it again, but I only tried it that one time. Ugh - wasted time and I had the solution right there. Thanks for your help.

>Russell,
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>>But I'll try what you suggest again because you are doing this . . . FROM data\branch10\worder10 . . . and though I think I did that way once, I did not do it with the UpdateNameList set up with the PK field.
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>The UpdateNameList setting is your missing link, I believe. The key field MUST be included there so CA can figure out the correct WHERE clause for the UPDATE statement it generates.