Thank you very much for the peopole who helped me on the date and string searching including menu problems. Now, I have a another kind of problem, I is been my long desire to create a progress bar. Right now, I am using wait window to display the status like opening. I want to be more realistic in doing it, that is a progress bar. I have browsed on the archived files but it is a class and I can't see the coding on it to maximize my need. Even just a progress bar to count the number of records in a field or any funnction that has a progress bar will. More power to you all!..