Re: Formatted RTF in Memo field?
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 17:01:40 -0400
"GaryZ" <GaryZ@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:B0585FA0-3B48-4C1C-9C74-132118FCB4F1@microsoft.com...
> Is it possible to store a formatted RTF file in a Memo field w/o loosing
> the
> formatting?
Absolutely.
I have an application which does it quite a bit. For display/editing you can
use the MS RTF control or one of the various 3rd party products. I use Ter
which seems to work pretty well with VFP.
I have one app where the users are preparing estimates in which fully
formatted paragraphs are being pulled from a database to make up the
estimate. The estimate is then formatted with job specific information added
and the whole thing is saved in the memo field of a different table.
It all works quite well. VFP doesn't seem to care what you put in a memo
field. It will give it back to you. RTF is a plain text specification anyway
so you won't even have trouble reading the RTF data from the VFP IDE.
Regards,
Jeff
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