Doug,

That's exactly what I did on a report last week only I used a field in a table instead of a variable, but you can use a variable. Notice that I also checked to see if the memo field was empty before adding it and I also added chr(13)s to put spaces between my notes for readability. And I added the person's ID and name to the note along with a time stamp.

Here's my coding sample -

IF ALLT(notes)>""
 REPLACE observe.comment with "--- At: "+dtoc(datetime())+" "+time()+;
 " By: "+mcoid+" "+mconame+" --------------------- "+chr(13)+alltrim(notes)+;
 chr(13)+ chr(13)+observe.comment
ENDIF