Thanks for confirming this Sergey! Guess I'll be buying myself an early Christmas present come Monday :)

>Hi Mike,
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>I see the same result as Mike Yearwood running your form in VFP9.
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>>Well if one other person confirms this, I'll be ordering an upgrade Monday :) I don't doubt your results, I just know that sometimes other factors can be involved...
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>>>I just ran your code and it is not doing what you describe - mouse in the list area or not. It does do what I described though - that the mouse holds the highlight on a particular record even though the incremental search changes the display value - only if the mouse pointer is in the list area.