Hi Susan

Andrew is apologetic, but actually it's not a good idea to delete inactive items. It tends to cause data corruption in OE or PO if the items are on a historical invoice or PO.

It is much better to use an Item Number change utility to merge these inactive items into a dummy item called "Deleted Item". Actually it is better to have a series of dummy items, one for each stocking unit of measure.

The Item Number change utility by Dakota Software - http://www.dakotasoftware.com/toolkit.html - lets you import items to be merged from an Excel spreadsheet, so you don't have to do it one by one. That product was just released, so your reseller may not yet know about it. I notice that the utility can also mass delete items, but again I'm not sure it's a great idea.

Steve