>>Index values have a maximum length of 240 characters (if a CDX is used, 100 if >not) so it won't really help you to index on a subset of the memo field if the >product numbers aren't contained within an area spanning that many characters.
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>It is a free table (I mean no CDX can be used). Index memo field is not really possible.
Free tables most certainly can have a .CDX. What makes you think that they can't? Or is it just that this free table doesn't have one?