Assume table.field contains the file pathname and table.memo is the memo field ....

cFileName=ALLT(table.field)
IF FILE(cFileName)
   APPEND MEMO table.memo FROM cFileName AS 0
ENDIF

>Hi John,
>
>I have a field named fileloc with the following content
>"P:\minitour\cottonclub.doc"
>This file is a Word document.
>I simply need to dump the contents of the Word document into a memo field in the same table.
>
>Regards
>Carmel