>>I've written a wee bit of code to test some OLE concepts but can't get my abc = createobject("Word.basic") command to do anything.
>>I'm using MS Word 7
>> VFP 3
>> Win 95
>>any ideas?
>oWord = createobject("word.basic") both work with word95 & word97. But some commands in word.basic are not recognized by word97 or behave differently. Instead use oWord = createobject("word.application"). In that object you could also refer to word.basic commands by oWord.wordbasic. ...snip

Thanks Cetin, I'll have another go tonight.

Sarah