John,

Read in Help about LookUp(). They explain it better than I ever could. It doesn't make any difference what your fields are called. You pass in a value to look for, the place to look for it, an index tag if you have it (to speed things up) and tell it what column you want returned.




>Thanks Cindy,
>>does it make differance if policy.ssnumber is named different from <
>>client.ss_numb ? and how does that releate to your example <
>> please give example <
>> JOHN <