If you are ambitious, you can cast the first 254 characters of the memo field as a string field, and return that to Crystal. For strings longer than 254 (and for memo fields), Crystal treats it as a memo field, and many functions are not available. <p>Malcolm Wynden<br><a href=mailto:wynden@island.dot.net>wynden@island.dot.net</a><br><a href= > </a><br>