Thanks ammo - i will check the link out now - can any1 else help with the other stuff,

thanks


It's not really the message box i need, i need a dialogue box to pop up when a button is pressed next to a field, and then inside this dialogue box, it would let me change the field of the record, then give me 2 options via buttons - OK & Cancel

If OK is press, the field is stored i nthe record, if cancel is pressed, all chages are cancelled.

Also need to include this :-

"The dialog box should provide the choice for the ‘Gender’ field by using radio buttons, and the choice for the ‘Course’ field by using a drop-down list box which contains the entries: ‘Applied Electronics’, ‘Broadcast Technology’ and ‘Applied Computer Technology’. (The corresponding database entries are ‘A’, ‘B’, and ‘C’ respectively.

The registration number should be validated, i.e. checked that it only contains numeric characters."