Word does the same thing interactively, and as you note there are a variety of ways to work around it.

However, the "official" way to do this in word is NOT to create a paragraph (press enter) but use just a line feed (SHIFT-enter) instead.

So what you could send to Word is something like:

StrTran(yourMemo, CHR(13)+CHR(10), CHR(10) )

I have NO idea whether this will work, but it seems plausible. ;-)

Dan

>I am creating a list in MSWORD via automation. My data is coming from MEMO fields. Each record is to be 1 item in the list.
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>My only difficulty comes when the user decides to put a carriage return within the text they are typing for spacing purposes. That causes WORD to think I want another List Item created at the carriage return when in-fact all I wish to do to insert a blank line within the SAME LIST ITEM.
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>I can do that while in WORD by simply deleting the number of the list item. Anyone have an idea of how to accomplish that programmatically.