>Sorry, was away from my desk...
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>I'm not exactly sure, yet. This is all very much in the design stage. I'm trying to break down different types of tasks. I will have one main table that holds stuff like who the task is assigned to, when it was started on, what its status is.
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>The child table(s) will be memo fields and characters. If the task is, say, documenting, I may just have a character field saying what I'm documenting. If the task is adding a field to a screen, I'll need stuff like what screen, field name, control source, etc.
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>Or, I could just have one memo field called "task" and shove it all in there. But I'm trying to get away from the free-form style into specific forms to fill out with different fields for each form.

Hard to give a definitve answer - if there's no rush, a would simply leave both options open for now - you may in fact learn more as design continues which will tilt you more in one direction.