Thanks Beth, that did the trick!
Terry, thanks for the reply.

Mike

>Hi, Mike
> You should just add a space between the first quote and the equal sign
>

=" ="

>
>HTH
>Beth
>>Sorry to repeat this one again; I don't have a Premier account to search.
>>
>>I need a VFP8 label caption to be "=" (without the quotes). It keeps giving a syntax error.
>>
>>TIA
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Mike