>Thank you
>You resolved it.

You're welcome

>BTW
>My (genius) client saved many word files with '' in the file name (double apostrophe ,not inverted commas), so I ignored searching all files whith this.

The double quote is illegal character in a file name or folder name in Windows. See http://www.berezniker.com/content/pages/visual-foxpro/determine-invalid-characters-file-name-and-path. I'm not sure if it'll work but you can try to rename those files using idea from mskb #315226.

> I have same problem if the user type apostrophe in text box that used for contain value to retrieve by select query.

You can use different string delimiters (like []) or convert double quote into CHR(39).

lcSearchString = "Peter's Book"
lcSearchString = ["] + STRTRAN(lcSearchValue, ['], [" + CHR(39) + "]) + ["]
? lcSearchString

>>Try

>>oWord.DisplayAlerts = .F.
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