Jim,
All of the three suggestions were telling you that you need to include "%" as a char expression also and all would work provided you're looking for an existing value. Still they're not working means either :
1) You really don't have a match or,
2) You're not taking that into account that LIKE is case sensitive.

select * from task;
 where upper(description) LIKE ;
 "%" + upper(thisform.txtsearch.value) + "%"

Description would be typically a memo field and therefore not indexable. If not then also include an index tag with key upper(description).
Tip: If this is a vital part of your application and doesn't have 3rd party tools such as phDbaseIII, you may create n tags where n is len(description) and each with a key upper(substr(description,ix)). Looping the tags and performing a seek is much faster than SQL like.
Cetin



>Jim
>
>None of the three suggestions work, any other ideas?
>
>Jim
>
>
>>Jim,
>>
>>Try this;
>>
>>findtext = "%" + thisform.txtsearch.value + "%"
>>select * from task;
>>where description LIKE findtext