Assigning text programmatically to dbRichEdit

From: Sydney Lotterby (sydney_at_infosearch.com)
Date: 07/02/04 

Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2004 16:52:16 -0500

(D5,MSSql2K,ADO)

I need to assign text ot a dbRichEdit control in the code, like:
            WordsRichEdit.Text := z;

No runtime errors but it doesn't assign though 'z' does contain the stuff I
want.

1) How can I do this without dumping 'z' to a file and loading from a file?
2) Why doesn't the above work?