>Might there be something besides a VFP memo file that could be searched quickly like data but also provide full-text indexing? I have always thought that not enough people were thinking about such things or providing solutions.

Well, one thing for sure, if they do have a Web site, that is a must. As for me hear, I really don't know presently of any other tool that fit for the job in order to provide memo field indexing of a table which is approaching one million records.