Ray, Thanks for your help. I'm building the query (uugggh). It is a make table query as you suggested. I use the donors table (for information so I can send it through the mail) and the donations table. Turns out that I dont' have a "last donation" field, but I do have a donations table with every donation that is related to the donor table through the donor ID number. is there a way to get this so I do only ONE selection per donor, not one for each time they gave? I'm thinking it will be in criteria under the Amount field. I'm staring at the expression builder without the foggiest idea how to say in computer "just the most recent, please" It may be easier just to export to excel, and manually put in the most recent donations and then get it to multiply for me. Access is tough on my self-esteem. Kathie -- Kathie Felts Executive Director Blooming Prairie Center Deep Roots, Bright Futures, Unlimited Horizons ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************