>How do you get a certain number of characters out of a memo field?

You can do that the same way you get characteres out of any string. lcWord = SUBSTR(mymemofield, 15, 10) well return the 15th carhacter of your memo, and the 9 characters after that (10 in all). You can use any string function on teh memo that you want, AT, LEFT, SUBSTR, and even the foxtools Words, and WordNum, I think they're called.