>You can use: APPEND MEMO memofield FROM wordfile.rtf
>
>Them make the RichText control work on the memofield.


This works fine...to copy a whole file. But I want to copy selected text from a file (not the whole file). For example, suppose I have an object reference, odoc, to the word.document I'm interested in, and there is a table containing a cell that has text in mixed format. The only way I've been able to reference the text (with formatting) is with the following.

ocopytext = odoc.tables(1).cell(1,1).range.formattedtext

this results in a range object ocopytext.

I'm not sure how to get the text out of ocopytext into the rtf control. The following does not work.

omyrtfcontrol.textrtf = ocopytext.formattedtext

Also. Although your suggestion copies whole files, the act of transferring the memo field to the rtf control causes some of the rtf formatting to be lost. Specifically, table formatting (which the rtfcontrol help claims to support) is removed. But this is just a side note. My main objective is to copy rtf strings (containing mixed format) between VFP and Word (in either direction) and preserve the formatting.