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To elaborate on this a bit:
David is dead-on on two of the commands you'll have to use. Be aware, though, that you'll have to change your memo field either to memo (binary) or general type.
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>Look at the APPEND GENERAL and APPEND MEMO commands.
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>>I'd like to be able to import a Microsoft word document into a memo field of a table. Can I do this? The table has 2 fields - id, memo.
>>I want to have the user input the id & then read in a Word document from a disk in drive A. Each record would have a separate diskette.
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