Thanks, this did the trick.
Eylon





>>Does anyone know of a way to use wordpad to edit a memo field?
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>>Thanks
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>STRTOFILE(SomeTable.MyMemo, "sometempfile.txt")
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>Then launch the WordPad using Shellexecute:
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>declare long ShellExecute in "shell32.dll" long hwnd, string lpszOp, ;
> string lpszFile, string lpszParams, ;
> string lpszDir, long nShowCmd
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>=ShellExecute(0,"Open","Sometempfile.txt",,,1)
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>When you are done with the file,
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>REPLACE SomeTable.Mymemo WITH FILETOSTR("SometempFile.txt")
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>If you need control over when the user quits Wordpad, to know when to update the memo file, download Ed Rauh's API_APPRun utility from the files section here.