If I understand you correctly, both the selected and unselected values are
in their own tables so you could just do something like this, right?
select foo
from unselected_table
where foo not in (select foo from selected_table)
HTH
Jon
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> The dilemma I have is that I have a table in my access database that I =
> query to fill a select box on a form the choice they make is then =
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