Cecil,
Under Tools, Options... select the Data tab, and in the lower-left corner there are a few checkboxes, of which "SET ANSI on" is one.

Remember, too, this is a data-session specific setting, so you need to be aware of that when you're testing it's value in debug mode.

---J

>Although the ANSI setting is not explicitly set anywhere, I am assuming that its default is set as "SET ANSI OFF".