>>Just to clear, went ahead and tried enclosing & within quotes and worked!! That's the reason for exclamations on previous reply. The way I tried it:
>>(In the command window)
>>
>>x=" world"
>>y="hello&x"
>>? x
>>
>>And to my surprise, it printed "hello world"! That's why my note stating that I wasn't aware of this until today.
>>BTW, did you fix your problem?
>
>Well. It's incredible how a simple character '&' may becomes our life more difficult. My problem was about word automation, not about macros substitution and string concatenations but hope we've laugh with this thread.
>
>In the matter i'm interested to, i've not yet fixed my problem because every one tells me that i must install VFP Service Pack 3 and Office Service Release 1. I'm trying to download from Internet but without success.
>
>In Spain there are not a site to buy them in CD. What can i do?
>Maybe someone tells me a really fast server to download.
>Maybe some kind man send me by mail (not e-mail: too much size).
>
>Thanks to all. Carlos

Carlos,

Someone in Spain has placed the Spanish SP3 fix for VFP only on a server. You might ask in the news, someone will answer. The Office fix is about 10M and should not be too problematic to download.

Jose