>Yes you are rigth Marcia,
>most of applications uses grid for listing now that ,
>listbox seems more efficient also it has built in incremental search feauture :)
>why i didn't think this way :(
>
>i'll try my need as a listbox and Barbara's class
>
>TIA

Before you switch to using a listbox, try my class with your grid first. Since my class isn't meant to work with a listbox, it may be less work for you. In most cases, you just drop the search textbox on your form after you've dropped the grid on it, and it will work, assuming the RecordSource for the grid has an index tag.