Hi Robin,

#1 The grid should have a ALIAS this is .RECORDSOURCE
#2 what's wrong with

LOCATE FOR "CLAPWORTHY ROBIN"$CUSTOMERS.SURNAME+" "+CUSTOMERS.FIRSTNAME

?

Agnes
>Hi
>
>I've been using an inherited form class that allows me to quickly & easily pass it a few parameters and it constructs an easy to use grid, and of course I've been happily using it for years.
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>Been asked to add a Text Search option at the bottom of the grid, no problem I thought.
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>When I dug around inside this class, to my amazement I found the grid it creates has no alias, the control source of some of the columns can be several fields eg Customers.csurname+" "+customers.cfirstname
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>So i've no table to search through, the grid has no alias, and the grid is not using an array.
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>How the hell do I go through the grid, looking for my search string text, in particular I want to be able to search for say
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>CLAPWORTHY ROBIN
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>in the grid example, this a combination of the two fields above IE CUSTOMERS.SURNAME+" "+CUSTOMERS.FIRSTNAME
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>Can anyone help?
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>TIA
>
>Rob