You, have had first hand experience with my problems :-) It is far to late to do anything about mine, even though I have a backup file, my input is trememdous, and no way to go back and pick apart the old and new. Will have to live with it. I did the merge way back in Jan or Feb... Another prob, is that I was not even aware until recently that I had a prob..kept seeing the "census" containing my notes frm prev programs..and now and then dates that were not right..so checked, and sure enough, it is the whole thing! *B