"dsimcox" wrote in message
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Thanks for the reply Gys . . .

Your suggestion did not work for me, I'm sorry to say. I have other
filters
on this recordset that also use the % wildcard that are functioning
properly
- so I think this is the correct wildcard to use in my VBA code.

I was able to work around this problem by creating a specific query for
this
case - avoiding the need to filter the recordset - but I'd sure like to
know
how to filter for a string that begins with alpha characters.

Hi dsimcox,
what does your workaround looklike ?

For me the filter on the record set only works with a client side- and
static cursor.Have you tried that combination of parameters ?
Gys