Yes, I decided to go the word route, too.

Peter

>>>Probably could be omitted specifying the second parameter wdOpenFormat but the question is:
>>>Why you get the dialog and I don't? (my settings are all set to EN-US).
>>>Cetin
>>good question. Since I just installed office 2003 everything should be set to MS defaults.
>>
>>Don't waste anymore time over it. Thanks for all your effort. I think I will stick with word as the data holder.
>>
>>It's just strange that with everything going XML this is not an option.
>>
>>Peter
>
>BTW try DisplayAlerts = .f. I'm not sure that it'd help.
>Another workaround would be:
>

>_cliptext = FileToStr("myTabDelimited.txt")
>.Documents.Add
>With .ActiveDocument.Range
>    .Paste      && Paste VFP data
>    .ConvertToTable(wdSeparateByTabs,,lnCols) && Convert to table
>endwith
>

>Save this one and it'd be a DOC which word knows how to open best.
>
>Cetin