Robin,
(Funny, that was my nickname in college - it sounds like I'm addressing myself)

At the point where you change your un-normalized table into 2 normalized parent/child tables you will have to replace all of the control-source properties on your controls for the CHILD table (assuming the parent table keeps the original name).

More important, you may need to set up parameterized views or other linkages to see all the child tables for a given parent value - for example all the invoice items for a given invoice number.

It's tedious, but not at all difficult.

Barbara

>I have a form that has six page frames. The master data really needs to be pulled from a master table rather than from this unnormal flat file. I want to preserve the order, search, updating, and reporting to be controlled from this sub-table but retrieve the masterfile information for viewing. I will be removing the duplicated fields from this subtable once I get things working.