Thank you for your help. I tried and used the code =messagebox("xxx" + ctext)
This code displays a screen alright, but I can not type in a few characters and ask the program to seek on those few character.

What I would like to do is give a user a box where they can type in a few character of code into a window to search and say OK and run seek trim(code) to find the record. Is there any other way???

Thanks again.