Steve Schapel
miscellany at mvps.org
Fri Apr 17 04:01:32 CDT 2009
This takes care of apostrophes and quotes within the text: ... tblSoumissionDetail.Description = " & """" & txt & """" That's how I always do it. Regards Steve -------------------------------------------------- From: "Rocky Smolin" <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> Sent: Friday, April 17, 2009 5:21 PM To: "'Access Developers discussion and problem solving'" <accessd at databaseadvisors.com> Subject: Re: [AccessD] Text problem in runSQL > Annie" > > If you have apostrophes in your text then instead of using apostrophes to > delimit the string use double quotes - "". > > So tblSoumissionDetail.Description = '" & txt & "' > > Becomes tblSoumissionDetail.Description = """ & txt & """ > > Of course, if you then encounter a string with quotes in it, like > representing inches, you've got the opposite problem. >