I don't know if this makes a difference but I forgot to add that the text goes into a textarea form element.

I just don't know why is has to be that hard to insert quotes... You'd think that someone would have thought about a way to fix it. heh

Thanks, I'll give it a whirl. I'll probably be back with questions

does this help?

in my select statement, the publish article case runs like this:

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subGetFormValues

subAddArticle

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sub subGetFormValues

title = Request.QueryString("t")

pub_date = Request.QueryString("pd")

news_source = Request.QueryString("ns")

article_body = Request.QueryString("ab")

end sub

sub subAddArticle

'db connect code defined here

Set CommandLine =...