I have a table called Bands that has a single field called BandLetter populated with 'a' to 'z' one letter for each record.

I have another table called Blocks that has various fields and a field called BandLetter that is linked to the Band table.

I want to choose a band letter from the table Bands for each record in the table Blocks.

I have tried to make a drop down, pop up, value list (although I'm not sure a value list is what I want. Anyway I can't do it or it wont work.

I am a complete beginner and hope this is not too silly a question.

It seems in the vicinity of this:

http://www.newcenturydata.com/downloads/filter.zip

--sd

Thanks Soren

The example looks very useful, I'm not sure that it's what I'm looking for though.

I really wanted a list to drop down giving me the choices I am confined to (the list from the Bands table)

Try following the instructions in Help > Editing objects on layouts > Formatting field objects in Layout mode > Defining a value list for data entry.