>>Edward,
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>>I looked over the Grid control option. I don't think it will produce the effect I am looking for. I save the query results to a temporary dbf and then browse it with a form. The Memo field with the "found" text string is displayed in on the form in a scrollable text box. The data in the Memo field is sometimes lengthly (several screens) so having the "found" text string highlighted would be very helpful. Any other ideas would be appreciated. Thanks again.
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>>Pat
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>Pat, grid's DynamicBackColor property will do this job.

I think he wants to highlight an individual string within a memo field, not the whole field. Wouldn't he need an .RTF control or something? Also, would PHDbase provide such a control, or is it just for indexing and retrieving words in memo fields?