Thanks for that Yuri.

I also have just found the MS note that basically says Word will not do it - not very helpful but I guess that's MS for you.

>Jeremy,
>
>I was not able to use this approach for mailmerge, but only while inserting txt file into word document.
>The workaround for mailmerge could be (and it works for me):
>- copy from table to Excel
>- replace values in Excel cells containing euro symbol via Excel automation, like ActiveCell.FormulaR1C1 = "ˆ"
>- then word mailmerge procedure recognizes excel data and euro symbol in it.
>
>Thanks to MS for headache.
>
>>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.