Keith,
If you can replace one instance, can't you replace them all ?
Not sure what the problem is.

NickHK

"Keith" wrote in message
...
Thanks for that Nick. I managed to solve the question about the variable
prompt, but can't seem to see anything refering to using the same variable
for all lines on an OR statement.

"NickHK" wrote:

Check out "parameter_query" in the VBA help.

NickHK

"Keith" wrote in message
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I have a spreadsheet that gets it data from an external source. I have
a
query setup that refreshed the data.

However, I need input from the user to say what month and year they
want
to
see. This works fine except for 2 things. Firstly when I run the
query
with
the query window open you get the window and it says whatever you
called
your
variable. I make the name something like "What Month", but when in
normal
use
(the query window is not open) the window doesn't display the variable
name.
How can I get the input window to tell the user what it wants?

My second problem is that there is an OR statement in the query. This
means
that although the variables input by the user stay the same, the user
has
to
put them in twice, once for each OR line in the query. I have given
the
two
lines the same variable names, but the system still asks twice. How
can I
stop this from happening? I have a new sheet to produce and it will
have 4
OR
statements meaning the input of the same information 4 times.