Thanks again.

(Can't believe my mistake in mis-reading your post )

Tom

Thanks Sergiy.  I can use your suggestion in other places. 

Howerver I think I over-simplified the problem in the original statement.

The users are allowed...

Yes the original software would certainly solve the problem, but it can't be found. 

We don't even know if it is a Progress Database, I only think it may be...

Hi, I wish I'd read you're article before I designed the system I'm now having to support.  Sure - some of the tables were never meant to have many records,...