Michelle,

It sounded like your Repair_checklist table had 6 logical fields lRepairType1, lRepairType2,.. lRepairType6. That's what a repeating column would be and data normalization says those columns should be rows of another table.

It's not as hard to build the grid as it might sound, but it may not be worth the effort of redesign at this point.

>I don't see where I have repeating columns, unless you mean I can't have more than one of the same field type in a record, and that I'm not about to follow.
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>I think I see where you're going, but it seems like a whole lot of work and no benefit to me. With your way, I'd have to do a lot of maniuplation to get the checklist into a grid, both to set up the subsets and to show the checklist for each repair.
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>I'll admit that your way is more flexible, and if I needed to have the user change the repair types, that would make sense. But since those are set in stone, it really isn't necessary.
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>I appreciate your trying to help, but that's just too much of a mess to deal with for such a minor part of the project.