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1. I don’t think so. But I can’t be absolutely sure since I’ve been developing this over quite a while.
2. Okay.
3. I’ll probably get rid of the combo box in the table. I understand their value in forms.
4. Thanks!

Thanks for the, as usual, swift response.

The Lookup tab for tblStatusLkUp shows :

Row Source Type: Value List
Row Source: “Abandoned”; “Completed”; “Pending”
Bound Column: 1
Column Count: 2
Column Widths: no value

I changed as you suggested and all works well.

A couple of questions:

1. How did I get Lookup combo boxes? I certainly didn’t ask for them.
2. Why did they reference values not fields?
3. Is it good practice to use them? I recall seeing on another site that one shouldn’t use some aspect of Access’s automatic lookup tables.

And, for the future:

4. How do you get those great screenshots? They’re certainly worth a thousand words.

As always,

Many thanks

Yup. Worked. Thanks very much!

Thanks, both of you. I will take a look at these solutions and get back to you with my results. And I thought it would be straightforward!

Very good to hear. I’ll be more careful in the future. Thanks once again for your help.

Very good to hear. I’ll be more careful in the future. Thanks once again for your help.

Stuart,

One question: What, if any, damage have I done by disconnecting these devices despite being unable to stop them?

Stuart,

One question: What, if any, damage have I done by disconnecting these devices despite being unable to stop them?

Stuart,

Thanks very much. I’ll close the Explorer windows and see what happenns.

Stuart,

Thanks very much. I’ll close the Explorer windows and see what happenns.

I relatiively rarely save directly from apps to or open files directly on these devices, since they are backup devices. I do sometimes have Explorer windows open. that display the devices’ contents. In factt, farily often.

I relatiively rarely save directly from apps to or open files directly on these devices, since they are backup devices. I do sometimes have Explorer windows open. that display the devices’ contents. In factt, farily often.

Folks,

If I could just broaden this question a bit. I’ve been running only one user account on my XP installation, Administrator. Having learned that this is bad practice, I created a new user account, call it Joe. Joe is a Power User account.

Now for the question. In addition to needing to know how to share programs (Moxilla’s Firefox, for example, doesn’t show up in Joe’s Start|All Programs or rather the folder is empty), I need to know how to transfer the various preferences and characteristics the Administrator account now possesses to Joe account (obviously to the extent possible given that the Joe account is not an Administrator account).

Would it be simpler just to create a new administrator account, rename the current one say Fred, then add Fred to the Power User group and delete it from Administrators?

As you can see, I’m pretty new to this SysAdmin stuff, so I’d appreciate any help you can give.

Folks,

If I could just broaden this question a bit. I’ve been running only one user account on my XP installation, Administrator. Having learned that this is bad practice, I created a new user account, call it Joe. Joe is a Power User account.

Now for the question. In addition to needing to know how to share programs (Moxilla’s Firefox, for example, doesn’t show up in Joe’s Start|All Programs or rather the folder is empty), I need to know how to transfer the various preferences and characteristics the Administrator account now possesses to Joe account (obviously to the extent possible given that the Joe account is not an Administrator account).

Would it be simpler just to create a new administrator account, rename the current one say Fred, then add Fred to the Power User group and delete it from Administrators?

As you can see, I’m pretty new to this SysAdmin stuff, so I’d appreciate any help you can give.

Well, it’s quite helpful as is. And congratulations on reaching number 1!