Absolutely true dws Problem is that I did post code I was using and then had various sugestions made (some made in the CB) and abandoned/modified/screamed. I really apologize for wasting folk's time. If I'd only been able to locate an example in Cheetah or Kingfisher or Google with multiple values in UPDATE...SET staement, I'd of worked out what was wrong. Again, mea culpa maxima and...
Thanks
jg
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