Ouch! Sorry Chris.

I only started using UT yesterday and I am still getting used to displaying messages in order received. I do apologize and thanks for the info you gave me.

Yes I do have a unique field that I created by taking some information from 3 other fields. I then use this 'Combine' field to run a duplication check. After I create a duplicates.dbf I supply the customer with a file they can browse and make changes to. In the meantime I carry on working on the master.dbf that does not contain any of the records in the duplicates.dbf

Once the customer returns the duplicates.dbf with changes I append it to the master.dbf.

That is why I was asking how I would delete the records used to create the duplicates.dbf so that I have a clean unique records master.dbf

I will make sure that I read the messages properly next time so that I respond to the right person.

Thanks

Peter