Actually, you can do it this way ...

SELECT field1, space(255) as memofield FROM table1

(Jay: Please give me a call when you get a chance.)

>As far as I know, you need to join with a dummy cursor that already contains a memo field to do this.
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>>Is there a way to add a memo field when selecting records from a table/cursor?
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>>For Example:
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>>SELECT field1, space(4) as memofield FROM table1 INTO CURSOR cursor2
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>>In this example, I would like "MemoField" to be of Memo type in "cursor2".
>>Is there a way WITHOUT using CREATE CURSOR?