>>>Hey Fox Peoples
>>>
>>>Is there any way to change font of a word within a memo field?
>>>
>>>What I've got is: Blah Blah Blah ^Plop^ Blahdiblah
>>>What I want is: Blah Blah Blah Plop Blahdiblah
>>>
>>>And it doesn't have to be underlined. It could be bolded (is that a word?) or italicized.
>>>
>>>Is this possible?
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>>D
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>>You can use RTF ActiveX control and store everything as RTF in the memo.
>>But that could cause other problems like use this field in reports, search a specific text in it (when it is not shown in the ActiveX control).
>
>At the moment, it is being stored as an RTF in a General field and we're trying to get away from that due to font issues, different items being different sizes, etc.

Convert to html and keep a common stylesheet at hand... which is a bit hard to organize and safeguard from accidental change, but is at least a worldwide standard, not just one vendor's internal and half-abandoned format.

And... general (or admiral) fields are not a good idea, for many reasons. Ok, first reason is off, every flavor of them Windowses comes with at least Wordpad, which can handle rtf, but general fields require a COM server registered for that particular type of file - and what if one was registered and then uninstalled? The re-registration of the file type to another app does not happen automatically (but the customer call does!). HTML is still less headache.