>Fox Pros -
>
>I hope this is a simple question: I have a list box (VFP 5.0) displaying
>a couple of thousand people, sorted by name (RowSourceType = 6, Fields).
>So finding a person by name is easy. But if the user furnishes an SSN or
>a hospital number, I would like to be able to move to that record and show
>it as the selected item. So far I have not been able to find the
>appropriate properties or methods in the manual/help/samples.
>
>Thanks in advance - Don Smith

That's too many items in a list box. You could try using a grid. Look at the class INGRID that will give you incremental search capabilities in a grid. It is available at www.classycomponents.com.