Gunnar,
I'm glad you've got it working...I figured you'd have to roll your own 'Find' if you wanted to stay modal.
>hi steve
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>i appreciate your thoughts on this. i have just written my own find dialog, which works just fine the way how i wanted. i did not have to change any of the 'other' forms .windowtypes.
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>thanks again for your help.
Steve Gibson