If you are saying that you are filling a table with "dummy" attendees, and
checking only those that actually attended, you'd be storing useless (and
potentially confusing) records.

Or did I misunderstand?

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Jeff Boyce
Office/Access MVP

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Thanks Jeff

What I've actually ended up doing (after having another crack at it
this morning) is as follows.

User opens a form which allows them to pick a date, then clicks a
button which launches a macro.

The macro first runs an append table query which basically creates a
new entry in the attendance table for all possible attendees for that
date.

It then opens a form in a datasheet view that is based on a query
pulling out all the entries from the attendance table for that date.

The user is then able to use a checkbox to indicate present/not
present, and simply close down the form when they are finished. All
records are of course saved when they do this.

This approach certainly has some dissadvantages, especially in
presentation, but I'm working on those.

Do you see any glaring holes in this approach that I may have
overlooked?

Thanks