Kathie, You could store the date in a single field in a table. You could have code that would loop through, send the thank you notes and then update the field. Then all you have to do is use that field as your criteria. I'm glad you finally got the feeling of getting it to work. All of the frustration finally just evaporates and there is nothing like that feeling of getting the program to do exactly what you wanted it to. James -----Original Message----- From: Katherine Driskell Felts [mailto:subscriptions@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:18 AM To: mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [mso] Access again--automated entry of date thank you notes were sent :VSMail mx5 Hey guys, I got a query to accurately produce the information I needed to send thank you notes to donors. Woo Hoo! Two months of off and on work pays off! Here's my question now for the best and the brightest of those who face Redmond when they pay homage to the gods of capitalism: Is there a way to tell access to automatically keep track of the fact that the thank you note was finally sent on August 2? What would be really great is if that would go in my donations table right next to the date received and amount, and THEN the next time I go running a query, if it would remember that the last set of thank you notes went out on August 2, so it would automatically know to grab records with dates between August 2 and the next time I run thank you notes (that date). Now, it can't just notate that the query was run, cuz I might run it to get information for a board member, it has to ask me if it should notate it. I can see why programmers like their jobs-its cool when it finally works! Kathie Katherine Driskell 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 ************************************************************* ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************