Hi Sergey,
When I do that lcText just ends up as "lc"
I did this as a test

lc = '<<date()>>'
text to lctext textmerge
lc
endtext
? lctext        && printed lc     not 11/23/03

>Bill,
>

Text to lcText Textmerge Noshow
>lc
>endText
>

>
>>I'm using VFP 7.0
>>
>>I would like to feed Text ...EndText a variable that might have Textmerge characters inside it.
>>
>>Example:
>>I would like to store something like this in a memo field
>>

>>myText .... <<lcValue>> ..... more text
>>

>>and in a method()
>>

>>..... myMethod()
>>  local lc ,lcText ,lcValue
>>  lcValue = <whatever>
>>  lc = memo.value
>>
>>  Text to lcText Textmerge Noshow
>>  &lc                && doesn't work
>>  endText
>>
>>     or
>>
>>  Text to lcText Textmerge Noshow
>>  <<lc>>             && doesn't work
>>  endText
>>

>>and lcText would then be
>>

>>myText .... <whatever> ..... more text
>>