>I am writing a program to execute a list a characters using KEYBOARD and get the list of characters from
>a table that has a 250 character field
>
>I want to enter Chr(13) so KEYBOARD will do a carriage return when it runs into it in the string
>
>doing Alt+10 or Alt+13 when entering the string in the field does not work
>Nor
>does putting 'text is here'+chr(13)+'more text' in the field.
>
>If I make a string in a variable such as 'text is here'+chr(13)+'more text' it understands the carriage return
>
>The table field does not
>
>Any thoughts to help solve this?

You can't do that with a character field because to VFP any ASCII character from 0 to 255 are valid characters as if all were printable. However using an editbox control on form and/or memo field you can simply use [enter] key or its ASCII representation to for chr(13) and chr(10).
Cetin