I've managed to get the following code to do 99% of what I want it to:

SELECT tbl3.col1, tbl3.col11, tbl3.col2, tbl3.col3, tbl3.col4, tbl3.col5, tbl3.col6, tbl3.col7, tbl3.col8, tbl3.col13
FROM tbl3
WHERE ((tbl3.col13 = 1) AND ((tbl3.col11 = colcheck) AND (tbl3.col2 LIKE '%colname%' AND tbl3.col6 LIKE '%colcity%' AND tbl3.col7 LIKE '%colstate%' AND tbl3.col4 LIKE '%coladdress%' AND tbl3.col8 LIKE '%colzip%')))
ORDER BY tbl3.col2 ASC

It for an advanced search form. col13 is set manually in the code, col11 is a radio button, and the rest of the fields are optional. It's for finding contacts in a table. I have colname which is the company name, but also a want to check it against col3 (not only col2). Same with coladdress, I'd like to check it against col5 (not only col4). Does anyone know how to accomplish this?

can you use better column names and resend