>Hi Nancy,
>
>Actually, you *can* bind controls to field values of ADO recordsets.

Right of course in that controls bind to object properties. I said my piece badly.

> You're right, the forms won't be ADO aware but you can manually enter a field value as a ControlSource if you know that recordset will be preent at runtime.
However, you still need a mechanism to update the current field values back to the source database or refresh the local values.

Exactly. And it's all that that's non-trivial to code. Thanks for saying it more clearly than I did.