Michelle,

This is just to give you maybe a couple of new ideas, not trying to get you to change your whole app...

There are knitting machines in the database I'm working on at the moment. The end user wants to be able to create various subsets of those machines for reports. I give them a selection grid with a checkbox and the MachineName the grid is based on a temp table that has one row for every machine and it sets the lSelected for the row based on the previously selected items stored in a separate table. It's really pretty workable and is all data driven. They can add new machines and create new subsets without any code changes. The client hasn't seen this yet I hope they think it's as cool as I do. *g*

>If the checklist were set at design time, then yes, that would be better. But Converting records into fields is too much of a headache.