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REPLACE mMemo WITH FILETOSTR(cDocFile)

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>my code
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>REPLACE wordin WITH FILETOSTR("c:\my documents\colinnewnotes.doc")
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>Wordin is a memo field
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>What I get is a lot of rubbish in wordin
>
>What am I doing wrong?

Storing Word docs in memo fields is a very bad idea, but if you want to anyway, there are some ways:

1) You can create a General field and use APPEND GENERAL (see help file)

2) You can create a binary memo (with NOCPTRAN) and use the same replace you intended to use

3) Save in a normal memo field but converting to base64 with STRCONV()

Regards.-