Phil- To do what you require it would be best to modify the design of the salary table. If the salary table was. SalaryID ->PK Years ->Integer Degree ->Text Payrate ->Decimal From there if you have the teachers Years of service and degree in an other table you can use Access Dlookup() function to return the payrate. Dlookup("Payrate", "tblSalary", "Years = 1 AND Degree = 'Masters'") would return the payrate for that row in the salary table. -Anthony -----Original Message----- From: Sanders, Phil (Faculty - sanderspw) [mailto:Phil.Sanders@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 11:29 AM To: 'mso@xxxxxxxxxxxxx' Subject: [mso] Vlookup in Access? Hi folks, I'm working on converting a spreadsheet into an Access database that will help us determine raise amounts for faculty members. The teacher table contains name info as well as years of experience and degree (Bachelor, Master, Doctorate). I've got a second table containing our current salary scale similar to: Years Bachelor's Master's Doctorate 0 1000 2000 3000 1 1500 2500 3500 2 2000 3000 4000 If a teacher has one year of experience and a master's degree, I want Access to tell me that their current salary is $2500. If they have two years and a bachelor's I want it to give me $2000. Can you all lead me in the right direction for that? Many thanks! Phil ************************************************************* 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 ************************************************************* ************************************************************* 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 *************************************************************