Jacques, Thank You very much for your quick reply. You sent me along the right track. I indeed needed to set the style as a MakeFontSymbol. However using the Chr$(34) for the double quotes gave me a compiler error stating that it found MapInfo. I inserted double quotes and everything worked fine.
Now here is a strange one. I have a program that changes the symbols of points that are imported on a daily basis from shape files. ( We use a Trimble Geoexplorer 3 with Pathfinder office to export the shape files. ) After creating MapInfo Tab files using the Universal Translator, we use a program that I wrote that will change the Point, Line, and Area styles of the Daily Mapping files to styles that are contained in shape_points.dbf, shape_lines, shape_areas.dbf files. The Styles dbf files have fields that define the various styles desired for the various cultural items in the daily mapping files. (Kind of a MapInfo Geodatabase if you wish to that type of Obscene term) The styles have both Fonts and Symbols in the defining fields and yet it all works flawlessly. Go figure. MapBasic is a wonderfully perplexing thing at times. Thank You again for the Help. Jon Gramm
