>>As for showing multiples... a better, but far more complicated approach is what I saw in FullContact, which was an addition to Visual Fox Express framework (and written in it). It had three levels of containers - cell, column, and outer. He'd line up cells (top to bottom) in column after column, adding columns as needed, left to right, until the outer container was full. The kick came when you wanted more navigation - an ActiveX scrollbar was added to the bottom of the outer container, and this scrollbar was, well, behaving on its own. It would bleed through other containers when the current one was covered with them, or would stay invisible without an apparent reason. It got more complicated with collapsible cells (there was a little + button which would expand the box from one-line to all lines) - the cell height wasn't fixed. It could be one line in collapsed state, and more lines - and the empty textboxes remained invisible, so there was some repositioning to be done. And when a
>>user expands or collapses a cell, the whole thing had to be laid out afresh, because some of the cells would now fit in the column to the left, or would have to be moved to the next column to the right. Tricky, but very nice in the end.
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>Thanks Dragan, I'll have a look at Visual Fox Express.

I'm not sure they're still offering FullContact - last time I spoke with Toni Feltman (during the last Whilfest), she explained why. You may contact them and get to Dave Tansey, author of FullContact.

Be warned that FullContact is quite heavy with other features - the PhoneBook pane is not the only Outlook-like feature in it, so even if you manage to get (or buy) it, it would take considerable time to get to understand how to use the part you need. If I had to do that again, I'd rather roll my own than use that, unless I had some use for the other features. The one time I did use it, we really needed them all, but the product was still in the early beta. You can still see how the app I did with it looks - it's sold on www.compusports.com as EasyRecruiter, and from all the features there, the phonebook is the one we didn't use - needed more tweaking then than we had the time. Also, keep in mind that it was two and a half years ago, and I don't know much of what went on with FC since.