Hi I need a little help as this thing is driving me crazy....

I have a part database that has a field called Part_Calc, which is a combination of different fields used to create a description of different parts that have different attributes which have been entered into different field. The end result is a text. Using a self referencing field, I copied the text to a global field and then proceeded to another layout in the same table to do a find.

here is where I am having the problem. First I find all, then enter the find mode. In the find mode, I past the text so that I can look up and edit the specific variables that created this text originally. However, the find returns a no records found answer, which is clearly not the case because I just copied the text to begin with. I realize the calculaltion is not stored, but I have indexing on and am under the impression that this find should work. Am I wrong?? (must be as I cant get it to work) What is a work around that I can use.

Thanks

One very frustrated programmer!!

Why don't you post a file showing the problem. Otherwise we'd be only guessing.