Thanks Peter. I just found out today that we've landed in FedEx's
discontinueing support window for that system. Given it's current
performance, I don't think we'll be going back to the same vendor for the
bar code/ship management stuff, so I may be able to totally ditch access
(yay!).
Of course, until then, I may try exactly what you mentioned. I don't know
access well enough to have thought of just referncing external tables.
jason