Ms. A. does not include / support recordset triggers, there fore the process can only be done through "workarounds". see faq182-291 for an example and some (brief) discussion of 'trapping' database changes. the procedure(s) there COULD be modified to generate messages in several different ways, but the whole process depends on only being able to change records theough bound forms.
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