Hi Gerard,

Your observation is incorrect. Only APPEND FROM a table/cursor handles memo fields. Any other kind of APPEND FROM ignores memo fileds.


>I half expected that using automation was going to be a solution but that tends to be very slow.
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>I did some experimenting, by first using Excel to save the file as a CSV file, and then using a VFP file with a memo field to Appe from Myfile.csv deli ...and it seems to put the data into the memo field.
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>Unless you can think of any other reason why this may cause problems, I'll probaly go down this route.
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