>Thanks for the help. I was looking thru the Microsoft Office Automation with Visual Foxpro book I have and didn't see anything about opening as readonly.

Hi Kevin,

It actually should be a deja vu. :) I checked old messages for the similar problem (wanted to find recent discussion I had with Claude) and found your old messages on the same problem...

Re: Readonly on Merged Document Office Automation Thread #836477 Message #836819, for example.

Found one of the discussions I meant to find, BTW: Re: Open Word read/only, prevent save as, release variable Thread #1244081