>Hi Hilmar and Tore,
>
>thanks for the help. I found my mistake, I forgot to put the padr(mycursor.memo,50) between quotes. Now it works fine.
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>Tore, also an excellent idea to change the query !
>
>Thanks !
>
>Hans

If this information for display only I would use first 200 characters of the memo. If you want to edit the content of the field, the best solution is to put an EditBox on the form and refresh it in grid's AfterRowColChange event of the grid.