Thanks for the correction David. Now I know how I was misinterpreting what I had read. Memo fields can't contain formatted text but, as you stated, can contain RTF formatting directives which is just text.

>Michelle,
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>You can indeed store the formatted text in a memo. The RTF formatting commands are plain text directives. I think the solutions.app shows how to do it.
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>>>You can do the formatting using the RTF control but the text must be stored in a General field. Memo fields won't store formatting.
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>>Ah, that's a key point there. I wanted to use it on memo fields. Oh, well. No formatting, then.