>I have two (probably simple) questions.
>First, is there a straightforward way to make the active form release when the user hits the escape button throughout the application? I'm not particularly fond of this interface feature, but all of my users are used to it in their current apps. Hopefully something I could put in my base form class.
>Second, is there a function that will search a memo field and return true if any of a list of strings is contained in the field?
>I thought that I had seen a function like this, but I can't find it documented now. If there is no such animal, what's the next best thing?

maybe on keylabel escape thisform.release in your form init?
at and atc search for a single string, inlist is used to see if a field's value is in the list provided. i don't think these can be combined...