>>>I have a word document placed into a General field, but want the contents (text) copied over to a Memo field. I can manually double-click on the contents of the the General field, highlight all the text and then copy/paste into the Memo field, but I want to do it progmatically. Can this be done? Thanks!
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>>>Regards, Renoir
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>>In add to Hilmar - if the memo field contains a word document, it seems that that it could not be moved or inserted into a memo field unless Word automation was applied to the source document and copied or saved the doc to a txt so that a paste or filetostr() service could be used.
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>>I looked at w word doc in a general field and it was totally grapical - are you able to edit the doc stored in your general fields. It seems to do what you want the source doc would be required and to stash it in a general field might require converting an object (the doc) to a string.
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>Hey Terry,
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>What I found was that I could edit the general field and then copy/paste highlighted text out into the memo field. Would just like to do that progmatically. If I use FileToStr it contains all the control characters and other not-so-pretty stuff.
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>Renoir

I have tried twice, and I cannot get the cursor to "select" a a range in a general field. You could go tools->macro and record your key strucks and then either replay the macro or use KEYBOARD, as Hilmar suggested to copy and paste.

I'll fool a little bit with it later - but my word dock - it had imbedded screen shots - would not let me select when it poped up in the GENERAL edit window.