Hi Tariq

You have two options. You can store it into a General field, which relies on Word being installed on the target computer as it works using OLE class -or- you can store it into a Memo (binary) field and then use COPY MEMO to create the file and then, I guess, Office automation as required.

>Dear Sir,
>
>I have a dbf entitled "docfiles" fields as
>sno n(3)
>date d(8)
>doc memo
>
>and there is word document as
>D:\DOC\CARD.DOC
>
>I want to store it, in readable format,
>into doc field of dbf
>
>May be with strtofile() or filetostr().
>Or anyother idea?
>
>Please help