>Thanks for the response Terry, however, it turns out I didn't have a corrupt memo file.
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>I automatically get mailed errors from the error log and this one came up and I thought s#!^!!! but then when I tried to open it, it was fine.
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>Thanks anyway, I will keep your suggestion for future reference.
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>Kev

I've seen errors where you can browse the table, but you can't select the data with a SQL - SELECT statement. In my case, you could browse the table and have the memo window open and it was OK. It would only crash if you tried to open the memo window from the browse (dbl-click, CtrlPgDn).