Does anyone know of any way to select only a certain number of records to appear on one page - say, like 30? - then having links to other pages of records if the number of records exceeds 30?

well, what are you coding your webpage in?

I am using PHP for ALL of my web pages. I have found out how to use the count function recently so now loads of more stuff is available to me - but I still can not find a way to do what I said in the previous post.

that is going to be specific to php so I would try that forum. I don't work in php, otherwise I would try to help you out