Hi

Turns out that a simple
cFiletoopenx = strtran(filetoopenx,CHR(13),"")
does the trick. Works a treat now.
Thanks to both of you for your help.




>I'm trying to open a PDF using _shellExecute which is added to my own form class. Normal this works 100% OK (will all file types). But in passing a file name gathered from selected text from a memo field which itself is opened in a child form, I'm getting a retval value 2 (= 'bad association' error code). Any clues! Many thanks.

Denis,

Can you pass
rtrim(MemoField)
to the _shellExecute ?
Gregory