You need to figure out what exactly is wrong. For this purpose you need to put a breakpoint into your code (by double clicking on the line) and then run it and watch what and how is executed.

>No his code does not validate either. I hate to just give up but I can just build a separate .exe which will reside on the managers hard disk only and this way she can get to management screens & reports but the validation does not make any sense to me.
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>Fred W.