Hello Charlie,

Havn't run into this myself since I rarely output to ASCII, but on way to approach the problem is to write a small routine which uses the MLINE and SET MEMOWIDTH TO functions to make a string in which you could embed the carriage return and line feeds. This could be done as a usere defined program and be called from within the report passing the memo field and returning a string with the desired formatting.

HTH

Bob

>yeah, but thats not the problem. The memo field is fine in the visual foxpro report but when i open the report created by using
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>report form "report.frx" to FILENAME ASCII
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>ie open FILENAME in say Wordpad then the memo field shown here only shows the first line ( due to there being no carriage returns ).
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>Hope this makes more sense.
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>Thanks
>Charlie