>Hello folks,
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>I have a memo field accessed by an RTF edit control on a form.
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>I can get the "text only" text from the current record by
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>thisform.rtfbox.text
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>How can I get the "text only" versions of the content (ie without any RTF formatting tags) programmatically, directly from the table when the form is not open?
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>Thanks
>
>John

John,

I don't think you can without an rtf control, unless you parse the memo content

#define RICHTEXTCONTROL_CLASS	'RICHTEXT.RichtextCtrl.1'
obj = CreateObject(RICHTEXTCONTROL_CLASS)
obj.TextRtf = Table.MemoField
TextContent = m.obj.Text