I currently was able get ghudson backupandzipit program to work. I saved it as Zipdb in the modules. What I wanted to do was run the program by clicking a command button in a form. The problem is I don't know how I would do this, I must mention that I am a little slow so even from the very start of when you create the command button I don't know which action to select and where to change the code. Thanks any help would be very apprecitated.