Evelyn,

You really aren't giving us enough information to help you figure this out.

Where are you doing this "search" from? Can the code be rewritten to use a thisform reference instead? What in the code is pulling focus away from the form?

>i see type of _screen.activeform = "U" on the next search.
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>i can't still figure a way out of this. or is there any way to do my search?