What is the SQL of the query that you are using now?
Are you talking about a Retiree Db database OR a Retiree table?
What names have been changed?
In general the best way to avoid these problems is to have a Retired Yes/No
field in the Employee table. Then base your queries on whether the Employee
is retired on not.

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> I am using Access 2003
> A couple of years ago, I created a query to append employee files from my
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