> If I may ask, why not have the function Return a recordset? Is
> it necessary for one to be passed in as blank?

Gross stupidity I guess. Actually, that was one of the options I worked yesterday. I had to be totally sure of the success of the function, so I designed the function to return boolean. Now, I'm re-working the function to return the recordset, and ByRef a boolean parameter with the success before processing further.

thanks.

Joe