I strongly recommend Mark's solution to the problem. While it will take a little while to setup the formula; it will be extremely useful in the long run to allow Users to search fields that you need them to be able to search without showing each column on the report. The performance aspect may not appear to affect you; but when fields are created, they are by default set to "searchable". This means that unless you turn this off for numeric, date and checkbox fields; for example; that QuickBase will automatically be searching many fields that would never contain a text value.