Hi!

I did tried to do the similar thing to what you mentioned with no luck. Built in VFP searching capability over the grid is not usable in the EXE application. You will require to build your own routine tha scans all records and fields in the alias to search for text. Display data in the grid, BROWSE WINDOW is quite hard to use in VFP togetehr with the usual forms.

HTH.

>thanks for your help but...
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>what i want is when i click a button it will automatically search the database with the record that is equal to the value of the thisform.txtitem.value then after finding it it will activate the browse window showing only records that is equal to the value of textbox..
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>thanks.... can u help me with that