Don’t be surprised… just improve your searching skills 🙂
http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields
Not to be clever here but bugsmi0, what search failed for you?
If you click on the search button on the top of the page, then enter custom fields in the box and click the Search button to the right you should get a list of various threads discussing custom fields.
If you then check the Documentation box and uncheck the Support Forums box, you should see the pages suggested by moshu and myself.
Again, just wondering why your search failed…
well i typed in custom fields and got nothing on the search, but i ended up finding it in the docs, sometimes search doesn’t catch it and sometimes it does 🙂