Thanks, it works like magic!

>Juan,
>
>Try TRANSFORM('ABCDEFG','@R XXX-XXXX'). The @R tells VFP to consider characters that aren't part of the formatting to be inserted rather than replacing existing characters.
>
>>Hi there,
>>
>>I try to TRANSFORM 'ABCDEFG' into 'ABC-DEFG' by issuing TRANSFORM('ABCDEFG','XXX-XXXX'), but the outcome given by TRANSFORM is 'ABC-EFG'), noted that the 'D' had been replaced with '-'. Am I missing something here? Please help.
>>
>>TIA,
>>juan