Tobias, The Catalgo uses a stripper to make the indexes smaller. It doesn't index =-+*&)(^%$#@. etc... or numbers. Some words too like 'Bill'. From what I've been told there is a version of the Catalog on it's way which will allow you to put keywords or charaters in a special place that will include them. I couldn't wait for that, and I love Zope, so I came up with a major kludge. catalog_quote() and catalog_unquote(). They are from an External Method which I wrote catalog_quote.py. Here it is: from string import strip, split, join, uppercase, lowercase, find bad_characters=(('.'), ('+'), ('-'), (';'), (':'), ('&'), ('*'), ('%'), ('#'), ('@'), ('$'), ('0'), ('1'), ('2'), ('3'), ('4'), ('5'), ('6'), ('7'), ('8'), ('9')) def catalog_quote(self, ascii): text = str(ascii) for re in bad_characters: if find(text, re) >= 0: text=join(split(text,re),ordinalize(re)) return text def ordinalize(letter): number = ord(letter) number_string = str(number) myletters = lowercase[-5:] + uppercase[-10:] converted = '' for character in number_string: converted = converted + myletters[int(character)] return converted + 'g' def catalog_unquote(self, ascii): text = str(ascii) for un in bad_characters: if find(text, ordinalize(un)) >= 0: text=join(split(text,ordinalize(un)),un) return text I just use it to turn anything that might contain the charaters in bad_charaters into catalogable stuff. Then when you search, you must catalog_quote() your search strings, and you'll get 100% accurate results. Hope this helps. All my best, -- Jason Spisak 444@hiretechs.com