Cetin, I'm looking into mail merge options and I found the message below in the UT archives that you replied to someone. I think you bring up a good point here. Is there anything you can't do by using the report form method. To me this sounds like the easiest way to do this but it seems like there would be a catch somewhere because so many people are choosing to do this through MS Word instead of a report form. Your comments?

-Rick

>>I have a mail merge operation I use in my app that uses a memo field to store the text of my letter. I also use substitution variables in this text thst are located within a calling program and replaced with appropriate field values. Although this works quite well, I cannot use any text formatting such as bolding a word or changing font size for a phrase etc. If I change the memo field text to bold, the entire document becomes bold. There is no way to format just a portion of the memo field. Does anyone out there have a mail merge operation that doesn't use a seperate word processor application. I would like to do everything inside VFP if possible. Any suggestions/Tips are appreciated. Thanks!

>I think this could be done entirely with a report form. -Cetin