THANKS! that did it On 10/4/05 12:50 AM, "xbury.cs at clearstream.com" <xbury.cs at clearstream.com> wrote: > try to "escape" the backslash first. > > put replacetext( fld 1, backslash&backslash & quote , quote ) into fld 1 -- Todd Geist ______________________________________ g e i s t i n t e r a c t i v e