>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

Do you want to search whole record or only particular field(s)? Can you give an example?