was wordwrap, now memo

bobsimcoe at adelphia.net bobsimcoe at adelphia.net
Thu Aug 10 09:58:52 PDT 2006


Hi

Yesterday, I ask for the best way to enter mutiple item description lines with some type of word wrap in a sales order program. 
I tried the MEMO function as advised. I was really impressed how well it work, and how they actually printed as desired for each line item I entered.
This worked fine when I entered records into the same file I printed from.
however, I normally assemble each line item data from a standing file and copy that data to a single record to detail file for saving manipulation and printing etc.

The problem is, the memo fields don't copy via:
Lookup filename r=free,  filename(1) = 1, where lookup field1 is defined as a memo field and field 1 is the memo I want to copy to the lookup file.

Does anyone know how to copy a memo field from one file to another?

If I can't, then I might try to read the memo field file, after exporting, using I/O functions and save each line to a filepro record. The output processing can lookup the description lines from the filepro record for each item line it prints. If I need to edit a line in my initial standing file, I think I can create the memo import file and fill in the data lines from the filepro record using the I/O functions again.

I still haven't found a way to use the functions WORDWRAP AND @WORDWRAP to help with this problem.

Any help or direction would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you again,

Bob Simcoe
MidCity Office Furniture
 


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