>>I guess what I am looking for is a way for VFP rather than the user to come up with the number.
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>How do you create your unique ID for all the other applications you wrote? Isn't the same technique you used applicable here?


I am a little bit green in some areas. This is only my 2ed application :-) On the first one is was a geographic location that the user supplied. Any suggestions? thanks for your patients