Steve,
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>I cannot reply to the message you just sent me...when I hit reply, it puts a bunch of UT code into the bottom of the reply, and there is not a send button at the bottom of the window. Really weird. Using FireFox, BTW. Does anything odd happen when you hit reply on your message?

No, i didn't notice anything unusal but I'm using IE.

>Anyway, the '?' does show up when I tested with the change you suggested. Any ideas why the original code would act differently between our machines?

It confirms my suspition that VFP treats that '?' as a parameter marker. Question is, why only in that field and why not on my PC? Do you've anything loaded in VFP EDE, like Task Pane? Do you've any global variable defined? I don't have either.