> i wish to find a record based on 2 criteria, in this case i wish to
> search for a particular job id and then date type as each job id
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> i am not sure how to program the AND.
It goes inside the quotes. You also need to delimit a date with #.
rs.Findfirst "[Job ID] = " & aJob & " AND [Date Type] = #" & aDate & "#"

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