There you go. Just a minor point that you may already have covered: I would just check for the file in the loop, but I would put a second delay or so in there so you are not almost constantly checking the hard drive...giving the WP program a better chance to access the hard drive...of course, I suppose you could experiment with this...

So, are you sticking with DDE?

Joe

>>So, I haven't run into this situation. You may want to check out the WordPerfect forums here on the UT. I had a question there a while ago and someone pushed me in the right direction...they may have run into this situation when running macros...
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>>Joe
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>Hi Joe.
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>Thanks for trying to help. ACtually, I got it figured out this afternoon. I just sit in a loop until my VFP program sees the file that's needs to be created by the merge.
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>Marcia