Speeding up searches

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My Access DB has two Number fields and five Text fields (each having field size of 200). They contain text. The DB is organised year-wise. I have now crossed 15000 records. I find that the search is very slow. Search is done on all these text fields for each word typed. Some one suggested that I index the fields to speed up the search. When I tried to change the indexes to Yes, it didnt accept. Is there any other way to speed up search?

As an alternative, I created an append query to append records of the year I select in my form to another table so that I can search that table instead of the main table which contains all years records. But the append query is not appending records.

Any solution would be appreciated
 
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Slightly confused:confused: If you have 5 200 character fields and you are searching each field for key words in any part of the contents then why are you not suprised it runs slowly?

Let me get this right I type in the words "Monday Tuesday Wednesday" into a text box and your app will then search for all instances of each word in each of the 5 fields in the table. I would be interested in looking at the syntax for your search SQL statement.

I am sure there is a more efficient way of performing the filter.

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