Hi All. James and Ray, among others, were helping me work out the details of doing a front end-back end set up. What I have is a database that will download daily to our network. Today's file named DB411.mdb will be renamed tomorrow as DB411_07222004.mdb and tomorrows download will be named DB411.mdb. This is a manual process until I can figure out how to automate. Hope that makes sense. So, I need my end-user database called BaseData to link to the file named DB411.mdb and the links to refresh daily after the manual renaming. Then I have a series of make-tables to extract data I need in the right column order and column names to use in my daily processing of records. This is automated on a form button linked to a macro. "Click here to refresh the data" - - - "Thank you for waiting. The data is now current." The make-tables are simply to get new tables with the table names the rest of my processing (queries, reports and exports) is used to. If this is all making sense, does it seem I'm doing it right or...maybe missing a step? I feel very uncertain about this so looking for advice. /g _____ << ella for Spam Control >> has removed 11565 Spam messages and set aside 0 Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! www.ellaforspam.com ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************