thank you nancy for the tip. yes i was talking about the wizard in the one-2-many! im tryin to display a parent record on a page with a grid showing data from a child table. ive stripped out junk and dup records from the parent so as to have referencial integrity between the two files. i mainly want to know how to switch between them when adding a parent, child or both records on my page. any suggestions?

thanks again,

marty