>>>For me it saves what I type ="" w/o adding any parenthesis.
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>>Just tried it with a different value. Placing ="AAA" into the tooltiptext property of property sheet causes ToolTipText = ("AAA") to be placed in corresponding property field of vcx file.
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>>What could cause the difference between you system and mine?
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>I'm testing under VFP8SP1. What version are you using?

I just checked. The way SP1 was installed doesn't make a difference. The ongoing problem is that the form will not open because of "syntax error".

Alex