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

It is something about that other message that causes weirdness in Firefox...

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>>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?
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>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.
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I left VFP8, and came back in, and closed the Task Pane. No globals/publics are defined. Same thing: no question mark. It puts one space in its place.