Depending on the font, you should see something like a square box in the code.

Try something like this to search for the character:

?Occurs(chr(26),FileToStr('testxx.mpr'))

Returns > 0 if one is found. You could put it in a loop and look for other CHR() values also. Chr(13) and 10 would be expected (they are CR and LF), and chr(9) is a tab, and you would want to stop at 31 as 32 is a space.

If it was one of these characters causing the problem, it should fail all of the time rather than sometimes, though.

>hi jim,
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>how did you go about searching for that character? i'm guessing the same typeo of thing is happening here. i went throught the .mpr line by line and didn't see any high ASCII characters.
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>thanks,
>
>vim