>>The only two functions that I find with 'general' as a part of them are the 'APPEND BLANK' and 'MODIFY GENERAL', and neither one allows me to save the data from a general field into a file.
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Hi,

This running with linked OLE ( never try with embedded )

LOCAL loForm,lcFile

loform = CREATEOBJECT('form')
loForm.ADDOBJECT('ole','oleboundcontrol')
WITH loForm.ole
.CONTROLSOURCE = MyGeneralfield
lcFile = .DocumentFile
.CONTROLSOURCE = ""
ENDWITH

RETURN lcFile

Marcel