Hi Alan ---

Here's a thought: You can determine the position of a "[" and "]" through the AT() function. So, the following loop will scan through all of them. I am assuming a modal form that returns the replacement value:

nStartLeft=0
nStartRight=0
cMemoText=ALLT(table.memofield)
cReplacementText=""
DO WHILE AT(cMemoText,"[") # 0
   nStartLeft=AT(cMemoText,"[",nStartLeft+1)
   nStartRight=AT(cMemoText,"]",nStartRight+1)
   cTextToReplace=SUBSTR(cMemoText,nStartLeft+1,nStartRight-1)
   DO FORM frmGetReplaceText WITH cTextToReplace TO cReplacementText
   cTextToReplace="["+cTextToReplace+"]"

***** You need the STUFF function here to stuff cMemoText with 
***** cReplacementTExt....I don't have the manual here and can't 
***** remember the exact command parameters.

   nStartLeft=nStartLeft+1
   nStartRight=nStartRight+1
ENDDO
REPLACE table.memofield WITH cMemoText

>In part of my application, it is necessary to allow the user to replace one or more words/phrases in a memo field. The words/phrases to be replaced are enclosed in square brackets. What I want VFP 3.0 to do is "read" each replaceable word/phrase in turn, let the user enter other words/phrase to replace it, then go on to the next replaceable word/phrase.
>
>Any help on resolving this will be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Alan