>>Are you sure it doesn't work? Works exactly the way you want it on mine. Do you have a sound card in your machine? If you don't, VFP only does a pathetic little click, not an actual bell sound. And it does this on every single character that replaces the last one in the string.
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>Duhhhhhhhhhhhh .... well, since I'm a lowly, outside consultant working for this client, of course my machine doesn't have a sound card. Of course, I'm still so engrained in the old DOS world, where every PC had an internal speaker and it was just sorta automatic, you know what I mean!!!!
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>I can't test this on a REAL user machine probably until Monday of next week, but I will certainly do so, and for now assume you are right about the code itself. Thanks again for the help.
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>Jere

Well, the speaker is still there, but I don't know why VFP doesn't seem to make a more audible sound on it. Have you tried the old SET BELL TO settings for frequency and duration? I have no clue if that would work or not, all my machines have sound cards!