Try the following code to add a menu choice for the Filer. Filer comes with VFP6, it just isn't accessible from the menu. If you have a startup program, put this code there and the menu choice will always be acessible.

DEFINE BAR 20 OF _mtools PROMPT "\-"
DEFINE BAR 21 OF _mtools PROMPT "\ON SELECTION BAR 21 OF _mtools DO FORM (HOME( ) + 'TOOLS\FILER\FILER.SCX')

>I am looking to do a search of my files to check for specific references of indexes, and I have used the FILER command in the past for that.
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>I see the FIND window and the scope as a possibile solution, but the scope is shadowed out.
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>Any suggestions ?
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>Dena