Hi Dan

It's not me that needs some help.

You told Timothy Bowen to ...

>>>Can you issue a select prior to the copy to which pads out your character fields with '+'.

and in another message, I had given him a SQL to do exactly what you suggested. Except, that he tried to run my posted code and because I typed it faster than I should have, he said "VFP didn't like it" -- which is funny cause that's even more vague than "Syntax Error".

So when I say your post I thought, I should not have posted code. I should have written the suggestion in English as you did, and then Timothy would not be trying to run anything. See?