thanks Séb & matthias... for your good ideas But sure I can't oblige the user to see on my app: Tagadatsouintsouin is the best piece of software you can imagine: If you have problems to write your '@' just do 2 Alt+TAB to switch to the next opened app and, when you get back to Tagadatsouintsouin, tap alt gr @. Marvelous! you get your "@"! You can also press (&hold) ALT and then type "64" (6 and 4).Wonderful! you get your "@"! Tagadatsouintsouin is the only one word processor which permits you to meditate before typing... Poor foreign keyboards users abandoned by Macromedia ! I've found a workaround: a little miaw, with #@{}[] inside, that the user clicks to put the characters after a field or a text member. But I am ashamed !!! [To remove yourself from this list, or to change to digest mode, go to http://www.penworks.com/LUJ/lingo-l.cgi To post messages to the list, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Problems, email [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Lingo-L is for learning and helping with programming Lingo. Thanks!]