Need help with Memo field text format

[sprovoyeur]

This is a re-word of a post a couple of days ago that did not get any responses. My sincere appologies for the re-post but I could really use some help and so hopefully I can explain the problem better here. I wasn't sure if I could re-submit the original post. I have a memo field formatted as Rich Text. If I enter data into that field on a form it looks fine. But if I try to read and use the data there are HTML tags in it. I went into VB and just set variable test1 = Me.Desc where Desc is the memo field. I set a breakpoint on it and looked at the contents. The text in the form shows "This is a test" but when I hover over Me.Desc it shows "<div>This is a test</div> and when I try to use the data it conatins the tags. For long entries it is much worse with many different tags like underline or list tags, etc. It renders whatever I type virtually useless to use later somewhere else. Can anyone help me out here? I have spent hours trying all sorts of different options and property settings. I could set the field to plain text but I really want the rich text features without the tags? I have got to be making a bisic mistake here somewhere.

[cementblocks]

You can't have rich text without the rich text tags. That is how it works.

You can use the PlainText function which returns the rich text stripped of the tags.