Hi Ashley,
Why not use an editbox directly. You could control its properties + Ctrl+F/G is supported, provided they're available in menu.
On a form you could just resize an editbox on gotfocus and add scrollbar, on lostfocus reset to original size (do not forget zorder(0)).
Cetin

>Hi Cetin,
>
>Thanks for the response. I tried MODI COMM & MODI MEMO and both will do the job.
>What I would like to do is visually duplicate an edit box on a form (with the vertical scrollbar). The above two commands occupy the entire form which I don't want.
>Adding the DEFINE WINDOW command does this minus the scrollbars.
>Edit does this but deactivates the search functionality (as far as I can see).
>
>Ashley
>
>
>>>Help!
>>>
>>>I have a form on which I have an editbox which displays the contents of an Union Contract file in ASCII format. I did this with the FILETOSTR function was the controlsource for the editbox (Readonly).
>>>
>>>What I would like is to provide the Ctrl-F/G search functionality - this does not seen to work..
>>>
>>>In the DOS version of this utility I used MODIFY COMMAND and this worked fine.
>>>
>>>TIA
>>Ashley,
>>Modi comm + "Ctrl+F/G" works in VFP too. But modify memo window (Wname) provides a better interface. Modi comm (or modi memo), Ctrl+F/G needs main FP window visible and Find/Find again menu items be available.
>>Cetin