Allan,

Of course the editbox approach may work, as suggested by others. I don't know how intuitive it is to use a space as a wildcard character, since you can't even see it after it is typed. How about using "*" or "%" after the word as the wildcard? Or a moverbox for the user to select available fields?


>Steve,
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>The data will be used to build a VFP SQL statement.
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>Here is my scenario:
>I have two item codes one is 'SERVICES' and the other is 'SERVICESUB'.
>I would like the user to be able to enter 'SERVICES' to specify that they want to extract both items or 'SERVICES ' to just extract the first.
>Also, I would like their input to be stored in a file so that their criteria can be subsequently edited.
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