That's the problem of working with General fields. The behavior depends on what application is associated with particular type of document on particular computer.

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>I'm adding RTF text to a report, something I've done successfully several times in the past, and seem to be forgetting some step. I've appended the RTF to a general field and set the OLE control's control source to the field name, but I'm getting a file icon in the report rather than the RTF contents.
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>TIA for any suggestions.