Lets get this straight: You click on Start > programs > MS Works > MS Works Database > by default blank database is selected > OK > gives you Create database with general selected on the field tab. Now where it says Field1 you type in NAME (for example) > add > done. You now have a 1 column database with a column heading of NAME. Right? Now the 1st field in Row 1 is highlighted. Right? Now you click the data entry bar and type in a name -John- and nothing appears in the blank field. Right? The column heading NAME is replacd with the word John. Right? This cannot be. What you MUST be doing is changing the name of the field. Thats done by clicking the heading (NAME) > format, which calls up the format box with 5 tabs the 1st of which is the field tab with general selected, > then proceding as you did originally and as I described above in my 1st paragraph. Go to the help menu and look for 'rename a field' and see if that isn't what you are doing. Also in the help menu find or type in add and look at "add a field" see if that isn't what you are doing to/instead/and. I think you may be confused as to what is a field and what is a report in the context of this datasheet.

Sapphires, try this. Click on Format and then Object. Select Square and then OK. Go back to Format and then click on Order. Your choices should then be active. I tried it three times just to make sure, and it worked each time. I hope it works for you, too. Good luck. Dee

Are you saying you have them on two different computers? It seems your question may be about Access but the title of your post is about MS Works which has nothing to do with Access except that they are both Microsoft products. But you can certainly have one without the other so it's confusing to someone who would like to help but doesn't know what help is needed.

Does this look like 'Atlantic' for those of you who have it? It looks alittle darker grey/greener than I remembered. http://www.myperfectcolor.com/Match-of-Martha-Stewart-B29-Atlantic-p/mpc0063084.htm Thanks bestyears, for the link...I hope it's the right color. Now to find out if I can get the formula from them or have to wait for a sample to be mailed. Here is a link that might be useful: Atlantic?