Hi Michelle and JackAssNo1,

First of all I want to thank you for not going the way of letting your users do everything in one form, it'a an approach that often leads to catastrophe.

Now for the problem. I don't know what the 'cure' is for your problem with Form.AllowAdditions = True since I have never used that technique through my years of programming Access. However, I might have a workaround for you.

What I would do is to create a specific form for adding records which contains all the necessary fields for the project. When the user clicks the "Add Program" button this form opens and lets the user enter the details. Once finished, the user would click a "Save" button which would save the new project, close the "Add" form AND update the list form.

This way you don't have to deal with one form doing everything and your users will not be confused trying to figure out whether they're in Add or Read Only mode.

Hope this helps

Yomet