>Hello,
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>I have a form which contains an RTF control, allowing RTF text to be stored in a memo field. The formatting will in fact only be a mixture of normal and italic text (for Latin names of biological species). Font size etc will be fixed, as will the number of characters which can be entered.
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>There are a couple of things I'd like to be able to do:
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>(1) how to get the length (ie no of chars) of JUST the displayed text (ie without any of the RTF formatting tags) in the form control.

? [Just Text w/o tags],LEN(thisform.RichTextControl.Text)
? [Text w/ tags], LEN(thisform.RichTextControl.TextRTF)

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>(2) I need to be able to print the RTF text as formatted text on a VFP9 label report.
Check http://www.atoutfox.org/articles.asp?ACTION=FCONSULTER&ID=0000000131