Thanks, I think the ActiveX script sounds like it will work!

Pardon my ignorance, but what's FINDSTR?

Sure, Frank. We used to update the existing table from a flat file, which was written in a script, but we decided to bypass that step and go straight...

Hi Michelle,

Yes, I have a DocID field to uniquely identify records. Yes, any part of a record (aside from a few computed fields) can be updated.