Thanks Jim,

It might save me this time. Anybody with a long term solution?

José


>José,
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>I did *not* do detailed calculation, but I think you could save enough lenght to fit if you revised the original code to use real short 'aliases' for the file names. I am PRESUMING that these work with INNER/OUTER JOIN code.
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>What I mean is something along the lines of. . .
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> FROM (((Autosoft!Coleur A INNER JOIN Autosoft!Marque B ON A.cMarqueID = B.cID. . .
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>Doing this for all files named, and using the A B C etc as appropriate throughout the code will shorten it a lot. Maybe enough.
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>Good Luck,
>Jim N
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