Hi Jim

I did exactly that, so I copied and pasted what you have given me, but it still returns datatype mismatch...
this simple code is just want I putted in
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local superid, act
act = 'search'
superid = 'IW/NP/MR 2002/7 '


if act = 'search'
locate for alltrim(TRANSFORM(casema.caseid)) = alltrim(superid)
endif
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my casema.caseid field is a character field, so I don't know why is it doing that.

.... really want to know why ahh...

Thanx
Tom