Roxanne
I have apps that have been storing word docs in General fields ever since FP2.6 and good-old Word 2. It works well as long as the correct version of Word is installed. We now have multi-gigabyte databases in SQL Server or Oracle.
We did it for security- we o medical apps and it's almost impossible to allow typists and temp typists to access Word documents securely.
Regards
JR
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1