Perhaps you could put an event procedure on the forms OnOpen property that would set the approval field's locked property to yes if user <> xx,yy,zz. I'm not sure how many approvers you are talking about, or how you are tracking them. If you have more information pass it along...... <p>jgarnick<br><a href=mailto:jgarnick@aol.com>jgarnick@aol.com</a><br><a href= > </a><br>