Sorry Juan

Being on the other side of the Atlantic I've been asleep. I cobbled my example from an Excel ex. - so forgot the necessary objects.

Terry

>Thanks Brad
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>You Rule!!
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>worked perfectly
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>Where can I find more of theese "oWord" codes and stuff would help me out greatly.
>oword.documents.open what type of code is this? is it native VFP code? As you can see I am still a novice rank :)
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>Thanks again
>Juan
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>P.S. Thanks to Greg, Terry and Jim too :)