>>>>"Dear [FIRSTNAME], This is blah blah blah" -- and I want to change [FIRSTNAME] to something else...
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>>>Either STRTRAN() or CHRTRAN().
>>
>>yeah that's it...yawwwwwn. I shoulda got more sleep last night....
>
>For this kind of thing you might want to look at textmerge as well.

hmmmm...oddly enough, I've never used teh textmerge() gizmo. I decided to look in the VFP help at the command and I really didnt get it. Can you point me to a coupla examples of how this command works?