As saying goes: "You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make it drink".
>In this particular case, yes, sure. But Mohammed has a tendency to use "Select from x where y=thisform.object1.object2.value" or "Select from x where y=somefunc(thisform.object1.object2.value)" all the time. I have no idea how many times I have tried to explain to him that he should replace these object references with memvars, but it feels like a zillion.
--sb--