>Does anyone have a set routine for doing an incremental search in a grid? ie: Users type in a word, and as they type in each character, it searches/locates the closest match.

If you've got the book 1001 things you wanted to know about VFP (Akins/Kramek/Schummer) you can look up a solution to this (and lots of other common problems) in there. Its a good book to have.

The solution I use (and I think the book's is similar) is pretty much intercepting keystrokes, and adding thenm together and doing a search on them. Also, store the time you last hit akey, if its been more than two seconds, clear out teh string to start the search over.