>>>Hi everybody,
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>>>Just want to understand, if it's possible to do a Mail Merge from a file with memo fields? We tried it directly from Word and got a message that it could not open a DataSource for our table with memo fields.
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>>>We're going to try to change the file layout to use character fields instead, but may be there are workarounds.
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>>Try to copy ... type fox2x into a temporary dbf, and use that as DataSource. As you know, VFP and Word were written by competing, often bitterly opposed companies, so their products intentionally lack support for the latest versions of one another.
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>We played with Excel files. So, you're saying that using Fox2x format with Memo fields would have worked?

Maybe... worth a try. More of a hunch than a clear memory whether I actually tried that. Could have been with Crystal... foggy memory.