no idea about the auto number thing the wizard is represented by an icon that looks like a magic wand waving over 3 dots. if you hold your mouse over the icon the popup says build. your looking for functions/built-in functions and choose Left from the right hand column. putting last and first together is called concatenate which you can find info on in the help file under "Joining two strings of text together in Access" -----Original Message----- From: DiMarco, Suzanne [mailto:SDiMarco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2004 10:01 AM To: 'mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [mso] Re: Access 2002 normalizing a database Sounds good. Do you know where I find the wizard? Also, I'm trying to delete the primary key field (currently an autonumber field) in the table but when I do I get a message that says it can't delete the primary key because it's part of a relationship. I've gone into the Relationship Window and I removed any relationship this table has with other tables but it still won't let me delete the primary key. Any thoughts?? _____ =20 << ella for Spam Control >> has removed 13216 Spam messages and set aside 0 Newsletters for me You can use it too - and it's FREE! www.ellaforspam.com=09 ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************