I posted recently about a large database I have created to learn Access and the SQL query language, it contains summary sales records by branch / store / menu item for a large company....so in the near future I'll have to do something different with the back end. BUT, in the meantime I have been able to run queries and am eager to work with the results, but after a query has completed and the results appear on the screen a few seconds will pass and then I get a spinning blue wheel that I believe means Access is working. In the task manager Access continues to use 25% of my CPU while the wheel is spinning. A minute will pass and I can briefly use Access before the wheel comes up and starts spinning again. I'm hoping this is just a refresh setting or something that anyone with more experience knows how to fix....please let me know any advice you have.