3. I have been told that I need to use the "Event Handler" to know when the user exits word so that I can release the word object loWord. I was pointed to a document which I do not quit understand it. Could some one please show what code I need (if I need to do anything), i.e. what do I do with object loWord so that I do not have multiple occurrences of the object?

If you download the white paper and code samples from the conference session entitled "Office Automation With VFP" from the tools and utilities page of my web site, you will get a detailed expalantion and code samples.