[AccessD] First Encounter With a Memo Field

How about reading all of them into a single string or a disconnected
recordset with some marker for the messageidID... and search that result
On Aug 29, 2011 8:28 PM, "Brad Marks" <BradM at blackforestltd.com> wrote:
> In my work with Access so far, I have never had to deal with a Memo
> field.
>
> Recently a need has surfaced to work (in Access 2007) with an Outlook
> Email field called "Contents" which is a Memo field.
>
> I need to search through approximately 30,000 Emails for specific
> strings in this Memo field.
>
> From my initial tests, it appears that the InStr Function does not work
> with this Memo field.
>
> Is there a way to find a specific string in a Memo field?
>
> Thanks,
> Brad
>
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