Hi Suzanne, Why do you want to do this? Are you talking about a lot of records? A simple query should give you a table with non duplicated patients if you just want a list of unique names. Lisa > Split the transaction table into two - one containing just > patient info and > one containing the transaction info creating a one to many > relationship. > The patient info only consists of first name, and last > name. Currently > there's no good primary key field. They have not been using > social security > number or any field like that to identify a patient. I'm > guessing I'll have > to use an autonumber field as the way to relate the two > tables? Thanks for > any help. > ************************************************************* You are receiving this mail because you subscribed to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx or MicrosoftOffice@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To send mail to the group, simply address it to mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To Unsubscribe from this group, send an email to mso-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) in the subject line. Or, visit the group's homepage and use the dropdown menu. This will also allow you to change your email settings to digest or vacation (no mail). //www.freelists.org/webpage/mso To be able to use the files section for sharing files with the group, send a request to mso-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx and you will be sent an invitation with instructions. Once you are a member of the files group, you can go here to upload/download files: http://www.smartgroups.com/vault/msofiles *************************************************************