I'll be taking a look at your db tomorrow. So I will probably see why its confusing you then. The way I understand it is that you want to have a form where the user can select a member, and use a check box to set him or her to a "retired" status. Using my idea above, yes, it would give you a list of all members in the combobox. then you check the box. the update query would take the name in the combobox and use it in its "WHERE" clause to set that member to "retired".