I posted a message earlier about using word basic to format a document from within foxpro. Thanks for the answers, they were most helpful. My dilemma now is that I can get the font size and type to change but am now trying to save the file as a text file. I can pass the file name to the .FileSaveAs word basic command, but when I try to use ActiveDocument.SaveAs, foxpro is not happy with this. I have created an object (word.basic) to do the other formatting changes. How do I use this command so that foxpro will understand what wdFormatText is? I'm using Foxpro 5.0. Thanks again!