>>>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
>>>
>>>That work?
>>>
>>>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....
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>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. :-)

Only if all the text in the world placed in MEMO field couldn't cause FTP to be more then 2GIG file ;o)