>Hi Dragan,
>
>I am capturing the 'bad' characters just before I write them to the memo field.
>
>BTW, with the "drag and drop", I see that VFP defaults to move rather than copy when dragging from VFP. Help says to use cntr-left keypress to copy. Is there any way to default to copy without the conol key?

Not that I know of... it seems like it's a windows thing. That's the way drag/drop works in Windows explorer, so it's consistent across the board.