Yuri,

I think I understand what you are doing (converting the Euro sign to Unicode text) however if I use that converted file as a mailmerge data file Word will not open it :(

Any thoughts?

>Jeremy,
>
>I do not know how to change a Code Page, but I do know how to avoid conflict.
>At least, it works for me. Try this:
>*------------------
>close table all
>create curs temp (lceuro c(1))
>insert into temp values (chr(128))
>insert into temp values (chr(128))
>copy to c:\temp1 sdf
>lcstr=filetostr("c:\temp1.txt")
>lcstr=strtran(lcstr, chr(128), chr(255)+chr(254)+chr(172)+chr(32))
>strtofile(lcstr, "c:\temp2.txt")
>*-----------------------------------
>
>Two text files will be seen differently in MS Word.
>I will appreciate if you share with me another solution if any.
>
>
>
>>Hi can anyone out there help.
>>
>>I perform a mailmerge in Word to do some reports. The merge data is a comma delimited text file create from VF5. However when the Euro symbol is used it appear in word as a small box. I think this has something to do with the Code Page but I've been unable to trace where I set this in Word :-(
>>
>>Any help would be appreciated.