OK, thanks Joe, that does help. That's what I'll do.

(BTW, I like your sig <s>)



>>I'm having trouble figuring out how to reset an identity field's sequential count in a table, after I manually delete one or more records.
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>>As it is, when I delete the last record in a table, the next record I add adopts the next higher number, as though I hadn't deleted it at all.
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>>I tried changing the seed, but that didn't help, so I set it back to 1.
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>>TIA,
>>Jeff
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>You have to delete all of the entries from the ID field after you change it to some other kind of field. Then reset the field type to an identity type. This will not only renumber your ID's but it will render any relationship unreliable as such you should, of course, only do this during development.
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>HTH,