>Hi Tamar
>I seem to have got it installed, not sure how as it came up with lots of strange messages as if it was not installing properly
>Ended up copying stuff to SysWow64...not sure if its necessary but the Text search is working now

Glad you got it working. I do agree that unless you really have to stay with VFP 8, you're better off moving to VFP 9 SP2 (with hotfixes). There's a ton of stuff in VFPX that makes like easier.

Tamar