> Hello,  I am involved with writing a Access 2000 application in which I
> need to search a memo field for occurances of strings.  I have not found
> any thing in VBA or VB 6.0 that allows me to search this field type.  I
> have been able to cast the memo field over to string (->65k) without
> problem, but am troubled by the lack of methods to parse substrings out
> of it.  I was hoping to avoid writing a parsing routine, but can if
> necessary.  Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated - Thanks Todd