How to do that ?

Right-click on the name of he table and click on ‘Design View’. You can add the new column there.

Then you have to remove the query that is updating the original price, you don’t need it.

You need to modify your entry form to store the value entered in the ‘price’ field into the original_price column too, when new records are inserted.

How to do it ?

You can use the after insert event of the form:

-Right-click on your form and select ‘Design View’
-In the property sheet select the ‘Event’ tab
-To the right of the ‘After Insert’ event click on the “…” button and select ‘Code Builder’
-Write a code similar to this (assuming that price is the name of the price field):

Private Sub Form_AfterInsert()
original_price = price
End Sub

This should be enough to store the original price.

Let us know how it goes.

For basic OriginalPrice and CurrentPrice, just adding the appropriate column should be enough. The two values would start out the same. As time went by, only CurrentPrice should ever be changed.

Tom

The problem I am having is that I have a ‘price’ field and a form which allows users to add an item in an inventory.

I’ve created a query which stores the ‘old’ price as the prices change- but as they change more than once, it writes over the orignial. What i really need to do is somehow copy that 1st price without it updating as the prices change – as you say, ‘assign the original value’.

Any ideas on how do to that?