Hi Sergey,

Please excuse my ignorance. This won't work for me in VFP8 (tells me I'm missing a ")" in a function) Also, I'm not familiar with CAST, is this new with VFP9?

Jim

>Sure.

SELECT field1, CAST(space(4) AS memo) as memofield ;
>  FROM table1 INTO CURSOR cursor2
>

>>Is there a way to add a memo field when selecting records from a table/cursor?
>>
>>For Example:
>>
>>

>>SELECT field1, space(4) as memofield FROM table1 INTO CURSOR cursor2
>>

>>In this example, I would like "MemoField" to be of Memo type in "cursor2".
>>Is there a way WITHOUT using CREATE CURSOR?