>>>I'm having a heck of a time getting text into the report writer from a simple text file. I have a letter that was composed in Lotus WordPro, so I saved as text file and figured I could just copy it to clipboard and then paste it in the report writer as text, but no such luck. VFP is only allowing me to copy in a couple of lines of text at a time. This will work, but it seems there should be a more productive approach to doing something that simple. What's the secret to getting text into the report writer from a text file? Don't say don't use VFP report writer...my copy of CR isn't here yet.
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>>>Thanks for any info/suggestions!
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>>>John.
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>>Would it be simpler to move text to memo field and use this field in report writer?
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>Thanks for responding Ed! the only problem with that is I need text formatting such as bold, italics etc. otherwise, yes that would be much easier.

So it's not TXT, it's RTF/DOC file, right? I guess that MailMerge/Word Automation is more natural choice here.