I think the simplest way to do it would be to browse to a different database. If you had five workstations with one of them being the "server" or if you actually had a server with the data that all of the other five PCs accessed, then it would be rather simple. It would depend on how often you used the "fake patient." To be honest, it doesn't really apply to me because our fake patient, Bill Gates, who is self pay by the way as Microsoft has no bennies (J/K) is used a lot, but I am not too concerned with tracking AC data.

But, if you had one or more "fake patients" on the AmazingCharts.mdb database on a PC that was not the "server," then you could easily disconnect that PC from the server database and connect it to the empty database on that PC as if you were using AC on one computer. You could then practice to your heart's content without putting any data into the actual database.

Of course, one would have to remember to reconnect to the actual database afterward. I suppose there would always be the slight possibility of entering real data into the wrong database, but if there were only "fake patients" there, it would be hard to pull up a "real patient" since none of them would be there.


Bert
Pediatrics
Brewer, Maine