Just to clarify. Chris W's comment that the vocabulary strips out the digits. It seems to only do so when there is no other characters adjacent in the property. If there are alphabetic characters but separated by whitespace it will remove the digits. If they are separated by a hyphen it will not remove the digits but will remove the hyphen. Also in my case of the DOB it removes the '/' separating the elements. So, my kludge until something better comes along will be to store a character on the frontend of the string. Strip it off before display. Add it to the element for searching. Better ideas? -- Tim Cook, President -- Free Practice Management,Inc. | http://www.FreePM.com Office: (901) 884-4126 "Nearly everyone will lie to you given the right circumstances." - Bill Clinton