Mandy,

Considering that the VFP/FP2.x design surfaces all heavily rely on memo files I think you can feel safe. *s* Fox has always handled memos better than dBASE IV ever did.

>I've got an application which will be compiled and distributed to a large number of users (an electronic survey). They'll be installing it on their computers, completing the survey, copying the files back to disk and returning the data to me.
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>I've got a number of 'free form' questions for which I'm using memo fields to collect the data. What are your thoughts on the use of them? (I'm using VFP 5.0) I remember in old dBase days we tended to avoid memo fields, but was curious what the thinking was on them these days. Are there any special considerations I should keep in mind?