Hello folks,

Thanks very much for the assistance so far. Last enquiry before the weekend.

For various reasons, I need to use the horrible General field type to hold RTF text so that it will print formatted on a report...

However, the RTF editing form control can only use a memo field as control source...

So after editing I need an explicit way of updating the General field contents with any revised memo contents. General fields seem a pain to populate.

Following recommendations, I've tried this in the RTF box lostfocus method:

=strtofile(notes,"oot.rtf")
append general gnotes from "oot.rtf"

However unsurprisingly, this is grindingly slow and makes the navigation really clunky.

I've tried playing with the append general command to find a way of directly writing a string without writing it to disk, but so far without joy. It seems as though there must be a way to do this. Is there?

Thanks in advance

John