First, thanks to all who responed to my earlier question. My second question concerns indexing an encrypted field. Can I use the decrypt function when I create indexes in the table designer? If not, is it practical to create indexes on the fly to change the order of the data displayed in a grid? For example, I have three fields for patient name and one for SSN that will all be encrypted. When the user clicks on the header of any of the name columns, I want to display the patients in alphabetical order by name. If they click on the header for SSN, I want to display the patients in numerical order by SSN. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks, Criss