Rich ----

>I used FoxPro for years before looking at Access. Then I was embarassed that something so simple and obvious was there in this incredibly inferior tool, and not in my "pride and joy", FoxPro. And still not in FoxPro today...
>

Yeah, isn't that strange?


As to reliability of generating keys: Some day, try to run your app on a peer-to-peer Win LAN and then you'll see the "suspect" reliability I've been going on about :-)