This sounds like your form fields are unbound, i.e. not linked to the data. Or that rather than importing, you have simply linked to data and Access is storing new data in thhta place rather than in tables within the Access file. Ray ------------------------------------ GR Business Process Solutions Ray Blake Head of Software Design ray@xxxxxxxxx Braedon Newell Road Hemel Hempstead Herts HP3 9PD tel: 01442 396518 fax: 01442 389353 mobile: 07834 226601 www.grbps.com ------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mso-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Carneal Sent: 05 May 2005 12:17 To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Re: Access 2000: Data not saved, please help Yes. I mean when I close the application, reboot, it starts over with an empty table. Question: If I export, and then import to another type, have I corrected this malady? Or should save in another format, delete this database (empty!), and make the database again? I have the field names in an Excel file, which was my original "import." Frustrating when books don't address issues like this! Thank you. Robert ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************