>>>>>>>>

REPLACE mMemo WITH FILETOSTR(cDocFile)

>>>>>>>
>>>
>>>my code
>>>
>>>REPLACE wordin WITH FILETOSTR("c:\my documents\colinnewnotes.doc")
>>>
>>>Wordin is a memo field
>>>
>>>What I get is a lot of rubbish in wordin
>>>
>>>What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>Because a wordfile is a lot of rubbish if not viewed with WORD or something similar? (Others say a wordfile is rubbish anyway)
>
>So I cant import a word doc into a memo field?

You have imported the file. If you talk about visible content, no.
There is the general file type, but this is not recommended because of to many traps.
You can only store the whole thing (assuming we are talking some SQL Server), and put it into temp to work with.
For VFP solutions it's not a good idea to bloat the memo file with such stuff. There one would copy / move the file to some repositiory directory and store a file link to it.