> Recently there was a thread on searching in grids. Most replies point > one in the direction of "ingrid" a VCX that is in the public domain. I > don't use ingrid, but the concepts are similar. I can do the text > searching just fine for text columns, but am having difficulty with > numbers and dates. The indexes for these columns are text so I know > I've probably got to do some datatype converting....but any ideas on > this would be appreciated. > I had a similar problem with Visual MaxFrame and dates. The best answer I could come up with without rewriting the supplied code was to index on DTOC(,1), which gives the correct order, and require the User to input the search string in the format YYYYMMDD (I put a reminder message on the form for them). Kevin