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# How to Copy Memo or General Fields to New Records

Article ID: 101018

Article Last Modified on 12/1/2003

APPLIES TO

- Microsoft Visual FoxPro 3.0 Standard Edition
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5b
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5a
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.0
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5b for MS-DOS
- Microsoft FoxPro 2.5a

This article was previously published under Q101018
According to page C3-723 in the FoxPro 2.0 "Commands & Functions" manual and page L3-886 of the FoxPro 2.5 "Language Reference" manual, SET CARRY ON will "bring all fields from the current record to a new record." This statement is incorrect. SET CARRY ON will not bring forward memo or general fields. (Using SET CARRY TO and specifying the memo or general field also will not bring the memo or general field forward.)
To copy the contents of a memo field to a new record, use the REPLACE command. For example:

       temp = db.memfield
       APPEND BLANK
       REPLACE db.memfield WITH temp

NOTE: The following methods require that the system menu bars and appropriate shortcut keys be available for _MED_COPY and _MED_PASTE, and that the menu be active and available (SET SYSMENU ON or SET SYSMENU AUTOMATIC).
To copy a general field, use the following code: `

       USE table1
       SELECT 0
       USE table2
       SELECT table1
       SKIP 1
       KEYBOARD "{ctrl+c} {ctrl+w}"
       MODIFY GENERAL table1.genfield
       SELECT table2
       APPEND BLANK
       KEYBOARD "{ctrl+v} {ctrl+w}"
       MODIFY GENERAL table2.genfield

` To carry all information from all fields, except for general fields, into a new record, use one of the following methods:

### Method 1

       SCATTER MEMVAR MEMO
       APPEND BLANK
       GATHER MEMVAR MEMO

### Method 2

       SET CARRY ON
       BROWSE NOWAIT
       KEYBOARD "{CTRL+N}"

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