Hi Greg
Sorry, but I don't understand your problem. Are you in fact talking about the 'memo bloat' problem? Or are you thinking 'zip'?
>I guess I will ask this question again, in a different way.
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>Does anyone know how to compress and decompress the text in a memo field without the use of a third party application or object?
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>I am attempting to conserve space in a large (15 meg+) database.
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>Thanks ahead of time.
>Greg