>>Hi all
>>
>>How can I display the contents of a memo field in
>>a grid without having to click on memo to view
>>them?
>>
>>Ger
>
>Another alternative (instead of the EditBox, suggested in the other replies) is to set the ControlSource to something like padr(MyMemo, 100).
>
>This will show the first 100 characters in the memo; in my system, the user sees the remainder in an EditBox outside the grid, when selecting the corresponding record.
>
>Hilmar.

I've recently learned, that you can have (myTable.MyMemo) as a ControlSource and it would be displayed correctly (it would not allow editting). Note the parentesis.