>This is where VFP wins hands down. In these cases, you will need to loop through the character string byte by byte - and rebuild the string - based on what you need to replace each character with.

While we're at it, one of the reasons why I largely dislike VB is that VBA for Word, which is a primarily text-processing language (or I imagined it should be) has cruelly poor set of string manipulation functions, specially when compared with VFP, which is a DB tool. Really, are there any special VBA/Word string functions that don't exist in VB?