Pete- Monday, September 30, 2013, 4:50:07 PM, you wrote: > I really want things to display without the <, etc, just a straight > representation of the original html text put "this is <some text>" into tText replace "<" with "<" in tText set the htmltext of field 1 to tText ...or am I misunderstanding what you want? -- -Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net