>Jim,
>
>Thank you, I have been trying to find the a way of getting an incremental search to work on a numeric 4,0 field in a grid. I will have numbers like 250, 350, 650, 6300. The index

PADR(TRANSFORM(numfld),4)

will bring me to the 6300 before the 650. I believe I have the answer to the seek now. I'll have to index

PADL(TRANSFORM(numfld),4,"0")

Then seek on according to what Sergey suggested.

Tracy,

INDEX ON PADL(TRANSFORM(numfld),4,"0")
INDEX ON PADL(numfld,4,"0")
INDEX ON numfld 
INDEX ON STR(numfld,4)

all sort records in the same order.