>From VFP, I am opening a worddoc and storing the contents of the doc to a memo field in a fox cursor. The WordDoc has tables in it. When i view the stored value in the memo field, for each line of the MSWord doc table there is a square-type symbol to the left of the text that was on that line of the Word table. I need to remove the squares, but i'm having trouble identifying what that symbol is to remove it.

Just look at the file in a hex editor and see which character is it.

Looking at some of mine, that character seems to be chr(7).