Brett Yes, ee52. DUSCI is a character encoding that is used internally in DBT. It is based upon the ASCII and Unicode encoding standards. If I know the DUSCI number for a symbol, I can input it by holding down the Alt key and pressing F9. In the dialog box which appears, I type in the DUSCI number and letters which follow "D+##" or "D+####" Go to Help, Miscellaneous, Special Characters for more details if you're interested in this arcane stuff. Warren