In case the first memo field is empty, but the next is not. First record sets the sizes for the resulting cursor or table, correct??

>Why are you using PADR() than?
>
>>Then how are you suppose to report on memo fields?
>>
>>>A character field cannot be longer than 254 bytes.
>>>
>>>>okay, did that. now back to the memo fields. alltrim() works, but if you use padr(), how big can you go? 8000?
>>>>