Thanks, Lowell -

Your Ring Thing makes sense up to a point. The layouts of all of the tables are identical, but the number of tables and the number of records in each table seems to me to be too large to be a good idea resource-wise.

I'm really hoping for a cookie-cutter solution where the user just sets the variable that he/she needs and runs the query for that table's particular results.

I have read about using a stored procedure, but I confess that I haven't actually understood how to do this.

Penny