You still looking into this? Sorry I didn't see this message until just now... but yes, I have an FLL that Bo and I wrote some time back that can complete destruct VFP General Fields and get the different pieces of information and payloads (such as a Word doc for instance) that it contains. Let me know if you still need it.

>Hi Craig
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>I have found this code on the Internet which you wrote to export a general field of type BMP to a BMP file:
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>LOCAL lcFileString
>SELECT "MyTable"
>COPY TO tmpTable FIELDS YourGeneralField NEXT 1
>lcFileString=FILETOSTR("tmpTable.fpt")
>ERASE "tmpTable.fpt"
>ERASE "tmpTable.dbf"
>lcFileString = RIGHT(lcFileString,LEN(lcFileString) - 599)
>=STRTOFILE(lcFileString, "MyExport.bmp"
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>That is some interesting code. Do you know or does anyone knows if the same technique could be used to extract a DOC, XLS and PDF to preserve their intact format? Because, when we use the Object.SaveAs() property, in this case a Word file, the file that ends up being saved on the disk is way corrupted.