I got a bunch of keywords in a field
I want to search for them - would i use like ??

example

if field has the text "baby, childern, toddler"
and i enter text 'child'
would the Like command find that or would i have to use something else ?

Yes, LIKE would find that - but only if you specified '%child%'. '%' matches any number of characters, so '%child%' will match any string of characters that contains 'child' somewhere, e.g. 'My eldest child is called Peter', 'I have seven grandchildren', 'Children are funny', 'I am a child' , 'child', or 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxchildxxxxxxxxxxxxx'.

On it's own 'child' would only match the string 'child'.

ahh - ok thnx for the quick reply man