Bill, Thanks for your suggestion. I tried this but ended up with a lot of formatting characters plus the text. Ay ideas as to how I can just get the text, even if I lose the formatting ? Regards, John Docherty From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Downall Sent: Thursday, 4 April 2013 1:39 a.m. To: RBASE-L Mailing List Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: Exporting VARCHAR fields containing formatted text John, One thing you can do is SELECT varcharcol INTO varcharvar FROM table WHERE ..., and then WRITE .vvarcharvar to a file named with a .DOC extension. Bill On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 11:09 PM, John Docherty <[email protected]> wrote: I need to export data in a VARCHAR column, containing formatted text, to a WORD document. To date my attempts have been unsuccessful. If anyone can let me know how to do this that would be much appreciated. (9.5_64)
Thank you. Regards, John Docherty
