Mike,

Sorry. . . can't quote 'cause message area has nothing in it! First time I've seen that.

Anyways, you actually can't avoid memo fields using FPD/FPW/VFP because the "base product" uses them like crazy.

I've found them to be extremely reliable in FPD/FPW and expect the same in VFP (OK so far). Maybe in other products there were problems, but I think you'll find the incidence of corruption in the Fox world to be very light indeed.

And they are so handy!

Cheers,
Jim N