record source is simply a table that is created from the &gt; &gt; download from the corp. office. The user looks up the member in this form &gt; &gt; and then click a button to copy the member demograhics to the second form. &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; The second form has a different table as a record source (it contains more &gt; &gt; information then just demographics). And not every member with the company &gt; &gt; will require a record to be created in this database. &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; The code to copy the member demographics from the first form to the second &gt; &gt; form works great until I try to add a DCount function to check and see if the &gt; &gt; member exist in the second form table source prior to copying the information &gt; &gt; over. The only field that needs to be checked for existance is the MemberID &gt; &gt; field. &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; I just want to take the MemberID field from the first form (MemberLkp) and &gt; &gt; check it against tblMemberInfo and if it exist I just want a msg box telling &gt; &gt; the user that the record already exist and then exit the function, otherwise &gt; &gt; if the member hasn't been created yet in the tblMemberInfo then continue on &gt; &gt; with the copy function. &gt; &gt; &gt; &gt; I have tried several variations of the DCount function and apparently am &gt; &gt; just not getting the