Thanks Christof.

I have not looked at Word's licensing - sort of assumed that since every user has a license that I could "off-load" the document creation to another copy installed on a server. But most likely they don't allow that under their license. If so, will have to work something else out.

Thanks.
Albert

>Hi Albert,
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>>2) use VFP to create a Word instance but then "recycle" the instance each time so that the docs are closed each run but Word stays open.
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>I wouldn't to it... This might be due to bad experience in the past, and Office could have changed by now. However, with Word 6 is used to be the only stable approach to reset the entire computer after 100 documents in order to keep things working. Otherwise you would get incredible slow downs and random crashes.
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>Keep in mind that Office is a desktop product not a server product.