>VFP on the whole, has a much richer language - particulary in the string
>manipulation and data manipulation arena.

Speaking of which, I was trying to write an Append Query in Access the other day and assign cField to cDescription, and STRTRAN(cField, ' ', '_') to cPrimaryKey. Of course, Access doesn't support STRTRAN, so I ended up leaving the spaces in, which is not a wholly satisfactory solution. Any ideas?