Thanks for all your suggestions. They are greatly appreciated.

ray

>>Ray,
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>>One trick no one has mentioned is that [ and ] work in FoxPro as text delimiters.
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>>I do so much with text and quotes, I've taken to using them all the time.
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>>["Women's Hospital, Flint"}
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>Yeah, but it's [], not [}
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>;-}
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>>>How can I use the REPLACE command with a field that contains an apostrophe in it? For example, REPLACE cPrefix WITH "Women's Hospital, Flint" WHERE blah, blah ...
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>>>thanks