>I have a mail merge operation I use in my app that uses a memo field to store the text of my letter. I also use substitution variables in this text thst are located within a calling program and replaced with appropriate field values. Although this works quite well, I cannot use any text formatting such as bolding a word or changing font size for a phrase etc. If I change the memo field text to bold, the entire document becomes bold. There is no way to format just a portion of the memo field. Does anyone out there have a mail merge operation that doesn't use a seperate word processor application. I would like to do everything inside VFP if possible. Any suggestions/Tips are appreciated. Thanks!

John,
A simple question here. Why do you NOT look at OLE and calling something like Word or Wordperfect to handle this letter generation??

Thanx!

Tony MIller
Vancouver, Wa