Ed,

Did you see my other example? I mean, name search, when each text value could be different lenght? How will you operate in this case?
Again, how will you search this:
Rauh
Pikman
More
etc.???????????? Different lenght of text values, any symbols allowed, including @$#!



>>>Exactly. She claims that any change from using an editbox for this will cause an unacceptable set of changes to something else. She doesn't want to hear about anything else.
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>>Ed,
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>>Changing from an editbox to a textbox will cause cascading changes in other areas of the application or form? Sounds like an esternal coupling problem to me.
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>Me, and you, and Edward Pikman, and Ken Weber to name 4 of the many people who've said there's a problem; editbox isn't the right control,way to do this". Several people suggested Listbox and a textbox, as well as Grid-based solutions. She said "I can't change to something else. I have to use an editbox." Once she said she wanted to do it wrong, I gave up...I don't know a reasonable way to make an editbox behave like an array of textboxes which force you to have exactly 5 numeric characters per line and handling the string as if it were an array of char(5) that exploits an editbox.
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>I have enough exercises in futility to deal with! ;-)