Is there a way to determine if the RTF has no text without loading it into the MS RTF control?

I found that when the RTF control displays as empty, it stores this in the memo field:

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang3081{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}}
\viewkind4\uc1\pard\fs24 
\par }

I am trying to achieve this:

Scan
	If !Empty(aa.notes) && RTF
		* Do something
	Endif
Endscan

aa.notes is not empty because of the RTF, but for my purposes it has no text so it should be regarded as empty.

Before I load each memo field into a MS RTF control as you suggest, is there a function that can determine if it has no text?

Cyril



>You can load RTF data into MS RTF control using TextRTF property and extract plain text from Text property.
>
>>Can one convert RTF to plain text programatically?
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>>example:
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>>TEXT TO mRTF
>>{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang3081{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Arial;}}
>>{\colortbl ;\red0\green64\blue128;}
>>\viewkind4\uc1\pard\fs24 This is an \cf1\ul\b apple\cf0\ulnone\b0 .
>>\par }
>>ENDTEXT
>>

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>>How can one get the text from the above programatically?