Rob

Are you saying that you want your USERS to be able to add a column (via the
front-end interface)? If so, other responders have already pointed out that
Access is not a spreadsheet.

If you (and your users) want to get the best out of Access'
relationally-oriented features/functions, you can't feed it 'sheet data.
Access is optimized for well-normalized data.

Regards

Jeff Boyce
Microsoft Access MVP

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"Rob" Rob @discussions.microsoft.com wrote in message
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I have a db with 5 columns and i want my front end interface to be
able to insert a 6th column. i can do it on the front end but it doesn't
save to the db?