> Try SHELL Quote.Shell("command_here") OK this do the same as REPLACE(STRING," ",CHR(92)&" ") but i can't do Quote.shell("pdftk input pdf.pdf background bg.pdf output out put .pdf") in that case I got 'pdftk\ input\ pdf.pdf\ background\ bg.pdf\ output\ out\ put.pdf' So the function is a little bit senseless? Gregor