>>I thought you were appending to an existing memeo field in a table. Presumably, then, thisform.edbHistory is the "screen embodiment" of the memo, presumably in an edit box? When you refer to the contents of controls, you need their .Value, e.g.
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>>thisform.edbHistory.value = thisform.edbHistory.value + thisform.txtUpdate.value
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>>That work?
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>>Terry
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>It will work. I'm worried about the character string getting too long? The contents of the history memo field could get quite long....
Well no need to worry any more than any other occasions when text is appended to a memo. If you think it's getting too big, don't append any more. Besides, in VFP 8 I guess a memo field can take all the text in the world, and then burp and ask for seconds. :-)
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