Hi Peter, Thank you again for your offer to help. I very much appreciate it. The current data base I have contains no fields for inventory totals at the moment. In fact, when I started it I had never done a data base. But now, with nearly 6,200 entries already added and atleast 3000-5000 more to add it seems a shame not to adapt this one if possible. At present it is a single table db. The fields are, and typical entries might look like this: Disc / Catalog # / Color-Size# / Color-Description / Size / Product Description / QtyPerPkg / Price blank/ 8035 / blank / Sapphire / 6 yd x 4 inch / Cord-Paper Twist-Metallic/ 1 / 2.99 blank/ A 1224 / R03 / Brown hair / 11 1/2 inch / Doll-Full-long hair / 1 / 3.25 x / B 051289 / C50 / Green / 28mm-2 1/2 hole / Bead-Wooden / 50 / 11.99 There are no primary keys set because while there will always be a cat# there will not always be a color #, but if there is a color# then the cat# will be the same. The first column is simply to tell us that the item has been discontinued, can't order any more of them. I want to be able to look at a given item and see how many are on hand. I am assuming this would mean that I need to invoice a customer from Access to accurately reduce inventory totals, which is fine with me because that means I don't have to duplicate my work. And I would have to increase my inventory totals when a shipment comes in from any of various suppliers. The business is a mail order craft supply. Ideally, I would like to include fields/table for who we purchase a given item from, to simplify reordering. Thank you again for your offer. I do so appreciate it. Take care, Pam ************************************************************* 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?Subject=unsubscribe 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 *************************************************************