• Matt: I've run into that very problem on more than one occasion. Sometimes I do a replace() to fix the problem. Sometimes I can change the text to avoid the encoding (?not sure if that's the right term) text.

    Here's another trick. What if you want a line return between each row instead of a comma? You might be tempted to use the following to create a new row:

    SELECT Char(13) + Char(10) + MyColumn ...

    But if you do that, you get this garbeldyguk at the end of each line: "
" Ugh. The trick is to do the Char(10) by itself without the Char(13). Then you get line returns without the added text. This may be obvious to people, but it wasn't to me. It took some playing to figure it out. So, I thought I would share.