A trick Alnoor passed along when trying to determine which panel in the User Lookup Wizard to pick from is to pull up the ALE, click on the custom button. The customization wizard displays the lookup panel name. This very helpful when doing a global setting (not allways perfect though). When creating a new global setting, it will delete any user settings. It is best that all global ALE be configured before the users start. I like to change many so that the default is name contains or description contains so that the users think these are the natural defaults. I have asked many times for a short cut key combination a la custom office panels that would pull the exact panel (thus avoiding the guess work), but all to no avail. Hope the User Lookup works for you. Still in Kal?