>are you just runnign prgs or r u running Screens forms?, becuase if you're running on PRGS you could write a little program to look in the code for the characters you want and replace them or even delete them

We are running from prgs but changing these characters is presently not an option because of the way they are being used throughtout the app. However, we may have to resort to this type of an approach if this can not be solved and recode the procedures affected. Thanks for the reply.