Hi, I have got a really complex problem here and I don’t know if this can be solved. I will go through the scenario. There are two files, lets say file A(the source file) and file B(update file). Now there are two fields which are linked and whenever information is entered on file B, it will pull up information from file A and enter it on file B. Now this is the difficult bit. People want to enter information differently on file B. i.e the field they are linking to on file A has no dashes in the entry i.e id no= 1234567 and the field they are linking from file B has dashes i.e id no = 123-45-67. Now is there a way of linking these fields together albeit they have the same information but one of the fields has dashes in them. Someone pleasehelp or just tell me it is impossible. Cheers Dave