>>>>My table has records with only a memo field
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>>>>How can I copy the data to a text file - when I try I get nothing copied
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>>>One simple possibility would be to scan the table and write the memo field into a file using either low-level file functions or strtofile.
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>>Yes I agree - could you give me some code - I have been wrestling with this one for ages
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>>Shanah Tovah
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>By the way the length of the memo field is in excess of 300 characters

use myTable in 0 alias workfile shared
scan
   strtofile(myMemoColumn + char(13) + chr(10), 'myFileNameWithFullPath', 1)
endscan

From the top of my head.

Shana Tovah!