>I have a view that contains several general fields in which I have richtextbox controls to hold drawing/text which can be displayed on the report form. I am getting an error when I try and close my view. I says that general fiels can't be used in Where statement. What can I do?

Change the WhereType property of the View to Key Fields Only. Keep in mind this will take away any ability to detect update conflicts if the same record is being updated by more than 1 user.