This is a WAG but have you ever had other versions of Word installed on this machine? It could be that it's expecting that the document is in a different version.
>I added a word document with
>select attach
>append blank
>APPEND GENERAL object from &gcFile link CLASS 'WordDocument'
>WHich works fine but....
>@0,0 SAY attach.Object VERB 0
>Gives:
>OLE Error code 0x80040008: Linked object's source class has changed.
>
>What's the deal?
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