> > Well, I thought I'd used every variation of "every record whose" in FMP > 6 in OS 10.2 without (predictable/sustainable) success, but I was > always trying to "set myVar to every record whose ..." Your variation, > in which you "show every record whose ..." and then "set myVar to get > data of every field of document 1" hasn't crashed FMP 6 in a full > morning of testing. I'm very hopeful! > > In an aside, though, I'm finding that "show every record whose cell "x" > is "whatever"" will also return records whose cell "x" is > "whatever_plus_suffix". I'm not using the "contains" modifier, or the > "begins with" modifier. I'm using "is" or "is equal to" or "=" and none > of those modifiers return the correct (exact) set of records. I just tried another variation that is working for me. First of all, recollect that the standard FileMaker exact match symbol is ==. So the regular whose clause is similar to a single =. I plugged in a second = as shown below, and in very brief testing, it is working: Show every record whose cell "yourFieldl" = "=A"