Hi Randall,
I too had very slow searching when I used FILTERs on a table with about 5,000 records. I changed the code from SET FILTER TO whatever to SCAN FOR ALL whatever and I was amazed at the speed improvement. Hundreds if not thousands of times faster.
HTH
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