In a message dated 8/31/2006 6:38:25 PM Eastern Standard Time, mdtaffet@mailbox.syr.edu writes: Jackie, Clearly there is more than one opinion on what LOOKUP means. I always thought, and several others concurred, that LOOKUP was reserved for those who were offering to do lookups for others from some source available to them. In other words, this would be BEFORE any lookup was ever done. Joan has a different interpretation which you have quoted below. Teri's interpretation is probably more in line with what I thought to be the case. -- Mary It is this very diversity of opinion that is the reason I don't think LOOKUP should be a classification AT ALL. Other data type categories are specific data TYPES and LOOKUP is very vague. And a query is always a query--so LOOKUP just doesn't fit. Joan