Paul,

I think that you still don't understand the differences between Data Bases and Reports.

I know... That anybody who tries to use one table for both purposes is doomed to failure. To use a vehicular analogy, they will have to pull the engine to change the oil and step out of the cab to set a turn signal.



Let me offer you this thought experiment. A flight of fancy, if you will: You find a young man with lots of promise and take him on as an apprentice driver. You try to teach him the best routes, the best places to over night, and all the things a successful driver should know. All day long all this kid does is tell you how he would do things and expect your approval about those things.

That's the way I'm beginning to think about you. You're the kid.

Don't get me wrong, Paul. You have lots of potential, your UserForm shows that you have a very good sense of detail, you are obviously very enthusiastic about this project, and you even have something I don't; a good sense of esthetics.

Now I might be a grumpy old man who doesn't know his arse from the tailpipe of a 7.5T lorry, but I've been driving this application building process for a lot longer than you, and if you really want to make a good, easily usable and easily maintained Driver Log, you're going to have to listen to me.

I know that It doesn't seem like my previous hints are going anywhere usable and that you really can not see the light at the end of that particular process tunnel. I am not going to put the entire development process into one post. But if you do the things I ask as I ask them, you will get to a usable product much faster.



One last chance.

Paul, there is one step I haven't mentioned yet and it is the very most important step of all. I will bet you a Pound against a biscuit that you haven't done it either.

Write down on paper, so you can see it often, in 30 words or less, exactly what you want this application do accomplish. I've done it for your App and I did it in 22 words. Don't count the first 3 words: "This Application will ..."

Obviously, you won't get into any detail in 30 words, but that is the idea. You need an overall goal.

Paul, get back to me when you've got that description ready.