note Anonymous Monk Thanks for the reply, I agree the table should probably have been structured in a single column right from the beginning. I was hoping to come up with a solution without having to go down that path. And good point on the status column as well. I'll wait until the other Monks reply before I redo the table, I have quite a bit of code already written for inserting and updating the table that works quite well. 991331 991335 2