Glad it's working. And if YOU find anything out, please let me know.

Barbara

>Barbara,
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>I appreciate your help and I finally bit the bullet on your last suggestion (closing/opening tables) and changed how all the forms worked. It took awhile to get it right, but darn if that didn't do the trick!
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>I just would really like to understand why it doesn't work the other way and if there is a better way to do this. I can't believe with buffering in a multi-user app, that most developers have not run across this more often. I've talked to quite a few and they didn't know anything about it and I cannot find any kind of reference to it on MS's Knowledgebase.
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>It's working and once I get it thru Quality Assurance, then I can move on. If you come across any further info on this topic, I'm sure interested.
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>Thanks again!
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>John